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...speech, started speaking of himself in the third person singular. Those of his people rejoice who feared lest his insatiable appetite for wealth and power might have gobbled even larger sections of northern Syria and made him a frightful monster with a sway beyond his capacity of understanding. ... If Allah is kind and gives him strength to ride out his illnesses, he might even worm his way into the presidency of an independent sovereign Syria...
...Wherever I look," he said, "I see men quarreling in the name of religion -Hindus, Mohammedans, Brahmos, Vaish-navas, and the rest. But they never reflect that He who is called Krishna is also called Siva, and bears the name of the Primal Energy, Jesus, and Allah as well -the same Rama with a thousand names. A lake has several ghats [bathing-places]. At one the Hindus take water in pitchers and call it ' jal' ; at another the Mussulmans take water in leather bags and call it 'pani.' At a third the Christians call...
Thoroughly disgusted, Allah Bakhsh, Moslem Premier of Sind Province and president of the All-India Azad (independent) Moslem Conference, returned to the government his Order of the British Empire and gave up his British title, Khan (prince) Bahadur. He announced that he was starting a movement of his own, to "fight British imperialism from within and foreign aggression from without...
...India Allah Bakhsh's stand carried weight. In London it and a flood of other protestations over the mishandling of the Indian crisis apparently carried none. The House of Commons debated a new India Bill (to bypass court appeals in cases of military executions). When Leopold Amery, Secretary of State for India, announced that British planes were being used to machine-gun mobs in Bihar Province (TIME, Oct. 5), Tory backbenchers burst into cheers...
Thirteen centuries ago the Prophet Mohammed called upon his followers to make a haj (pilgrimage) to his native Mecca at least once in their lifetimes in order to gain favor in the eyes of Allah. For 13 centuries, pious Moslems have done so, and thereafter been honored as haji. From India some 11,000 pilgrims annually made the trip. But last week India's Moslems heard from Delhi that sea transport for the haj (only feasible route from India) was out for the duration. Reason: enemy subs in the Indian Ocean...