Word: arab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before dawn one morning last week at Nablus a detachment of native policemen and soldiers, led by British Assistant District Commissioner W. Foote, moved off into the hills of northern Palestine. Their destination was the tiny Arab village of Mazar. With the squad moved armored cars. As they crept up on the village in the grey morning light, two British planes droned overhead. The Arabs scrambled from their houses to find their village surrounded...
Striding forward, Commissioner Foote threatened to wipe out the entire settlement unless the Arab villagers produced and delivered to the British the aged Sheik Farhan al Sadi. After this 75-year-old Arab dignitary had been told of the British ultimatum, he crawled out of a wheat bin, gave himself...
...days later the Sheik was accused of "possessing arms"-something every Arab sheik possesses-advised that if convicted under Britain's new emergency decree in Palestine the penalty would be Death. Arraigned before a court martial of three British officers, the Sheik Farhan refused to utter a word to the Court, kept repeating to himself passages from the Koran. His lawyer entered a plea of "not guilty," the court sentenced him to Death, and on the sixth morning after he crawled out of the wheat bin Sheik Farhan al Sadi was hanged by the neck until dead at Acre...
...multiplying battles" and outbreaks of Arab nationalism are "more like a contagion than a directed movement," decided Mrs. McCormick. "The aggravating factor in the French colonies, according to the French residents, is the policy of the Popular Front Government (in Paris). . . . French merchants interviewed by this correspondent complain bitterly that agitators from France, representing the Government in power, are inciting the natives to throw off the yoke of France. . . . Mayor Rozis of Algiers, a colonial administrator for 30 years and a consistent friend of the Arabs . . . declared ... in an open letter to Premier Chautemps that the weakness and demagogy...
...Polish village, is a Polish Tartar, who arrived in the U. S. 29 years ago. Most of his habitual worshippers are also Tartars, descendants of Tamerlane's hordes who entered Russia 600 years ago. But at the joyous feast which ends Ramadan Dec. 5, 300 Moslems - Arab, Syrian, Egyptian, Turkish, East Indian - are expected to gather in the mosque from all parts...