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Utterly different from bold Sultan El Atrash is the mild spoken little Amir Abdullah of Transjordania, a contented British puppet whose chief delight is in breeding priceless Arab steeds. Last week the Amir dutifully hastened across the River Jordan by means of Allenby Bridge, successfully dissuaded some 300 of his subjects who had set out minded to wage plunder in Palestine...
Another British puppet, paradoxically more potent than his elder brother Amir Abdullah, is King Feisul of Irak, inventor of a special headdress named after him. Of all the Arab lands in the Near East, melancholy King Feisul's seemed the least perturbed about Jews, though one band of Iraki tribesmen were said to be making their way secretly to Palestine...
Officials close to the Secretary of State for India said guardedly, in London, that the present activities of Colonel Lawrence began last April. They recalled that Amir Amanullah, Khan of Afghanistan, has invited to a Pan-Asiatic Parley at Kabul, Afghanistan, next November, delegates from the nationalist parties of India and Egypt, and representatives of the nationalist governments of Persia and Turkey, together with emissaries from all the Sultans, Imams and potent Sheiks* of Arabia...
...intimation was allowed to escape with contented British smugness that Colonel Lawrence, whose Arab friends have created him a Prince of Mecca, is now using his unique influence to combat the Pan-Asiatic schemes of the Amir of Afghanistan-who recently toured Europe, was the guest of George V (TIME, March 26, April...
...Officials of the British Foreign Office told last week that a cinema record of all the Amir's adventures is being made at the expense of the British Government which will present the completed film to His Majesty as a lasting reminder of the British Empire's might...