Word: abdul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princes and Palestine. Few days before, two main foes of the main Jewish idea had been feted, dined, greeted, and generally given the full red-carpet treatment. The foes: Prince Feisal, Foreign Minister to Saudi Arabia's wily Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, and younger brother Prince Khalid. The grave, observant Arab Princes, ostensibly here to study "Southwest irrigation projects," thus far seemed to be spending a great deal more time with diplomatic bigwigs than in inspecting irrigation ditches...
...Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia gave President Roosevelt (through visiting Princes Feisal and Khalid) a three-foot sword with a diamond-studded grip and curved blade of Damascus steel...
...King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia has a rarely visited kingdom about four times the size of Texas, the right of life & death over 4,000,000 subjects; 1,000 automobiles; some 30 sons. To Washington last week, from Ibn Saud's sand-swept kingdom, came two of the latter-Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Feisal, his brother Prince Khalid-perhaps to discuss oil concessions to the U.S., perhaps to iron out problems concerning Palestine...
Gandhi at once began working harder than before. He received the Indian National Congress Party Working Committee to discuss ways of continuing to protest British rule. Among those present: huge, bearded Abdul Gaffar Khan, a Moslem who spends his life preaching Hindu Gandhi's nonviolence principles to the fierce Pathans of the Northwest Frontier Province; the Congress Party's spade-bearded Moslem President, Maulana Abdulkalam Azad, who gesticulates like a French prefect; the poetess and veteran Congresswoman, Madame Sarojini Naidu, Gandhi's principal female disciple, who calls him Mickey Mouse; India's second-best-known citizen...
Government by Whom? The Congress wanted immediate "recognition of India's freedom and right to self-determination." Wrote Congress President Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad to Sir Stafford Cripps: "The Committee do not think that there is any inherent difficulty in the way of constitutional changes during the war. . . . Certain important changes [can be made]. The rest can be left to future arrangements and adjustments. I might remind you that the British Prime Minister actually proposed a union of France and England on the fall of France. No greater or more fundamental change could be imagined, and this was suggested...