Word: abdul
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...sick man of Europe." Midhat was a "Young Turk"-in spirit at least-before Atatürk was ever heard of. He was born in 1822, the son of a Constantinople judge. At 29, he was made General Secretary of the State Council of well-meaning but pusillanimous Sultan Abdul Mejid. A sternly upright and able young man with compassionate and liberal convictions, Midhat was soon serving as a trouble-shooter in one tense corner after another of the sprawling Ottoman empire. His determined efforts to abolish slave labor, wipe out anti-Christian discrimination and establish schools and colleges went...
...like many a reformer, Midhat made enemies in high places during his years of service. Some time after Abdul Mejid died, the Russian ambassador at Constantinople used his friendship with the Queen Mother to get Midhat recalled from the Balkans. Midhat squared himself with the new Sultan, Abdul Aziz, and was soon appointed Grand Vizier of the Empire. From this lofty eminence he discov. ered that the Sultan was growing rich, at his country's expense, on bribes from a wealthy Austrian railroad man. Midhat appealed to the Sultan's conscience. The Sultan returned the bribes and sulkily...
Plot & Prison. Abdul Hamid was a devious, scheming tyrant who hated Reformer Midhat, chiefly because the latter had written a constitution for Turkey. The new Sultan reappointed Midhat as Grand Vizier and set an army of spies to watch him. Soon he had cooked up enough phony charges to banish Midhat and all his followers. Responding to diplomatic pressure, Abdul Hamid restored Midhat to imperial grace. In 1879, however, he had Midhat arrested for the "scissor-murder" of Abdul Aziz...
Died. Prince Mansour Ibn Abdul Aziz, 29, Defense Minister of Saudi Arabia, a favorite son of King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud; of uremia; in Neuilly, France. In 1945, with his father, he was entertained by Franklin Roosevelt aboard the U.S.S. Quincy in the Red Sea, was long considered the likely successor to Saudi Arabia's throne...
...National Front for immediate nationalization of Iran's oil, the threats against those who disagreed, had brought political assassination back to Iran and had made Iran's Communists bold. Last week, under martial law after the murders of Premier AH Razmara and Education Minister Dr. Abdul Zanganeh, Teheran was quiet, but police picked up 25 gun-toting...