Word: arab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tense with anxiety, the 209,000,000 people of the Mohammedan world, only 30,000,000 of whom are citizens of states ruled by Mohammedans, followed day by day last week the violent efforts of Palestine's Christian rulers to break Arab resistance to their scheme of carving up the Holy Land into three parts: a Jewish state and an Arab state divided by a British corridor (TIME, July...
Unable were the Christian authorities recently to prevent the escape from British-mandated Palestine to French-mandated Syria of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, spiritual leader of 800,000 Arabs. Last week they got back at him by seizing the Moslem Religious Funds (the chief Moslem charitable and religious organization in Palestine), hitherto under the Grand Mufti's control. This organization has been carrying on charitable work to the value of $1,000,000 per year. When the Christians placed these funds under the direction of a board consisting of two Christians and one Mohammedan, all Islam felt...
...showing their weapons. Emboldened by the Black Watch's presence, the disarmed Christian police demanded that the Moslem villagers restore their arms, roughly ordered Moslem women to aid them in searching cellars. Having found no weapons, the Christians set charges of dynamite under the houses of three prominent Arab residents who remained helpless while their homes and goods were blown to smithereens. Finally the Christians, after sending their patrol to mark other Arab homes, announced: "We are prepared to spare one house for each rifle returned...
...March 29), last week adopted resolution after resolution of solidarity with Moslems of Palestine. At Addis Ababa, the Italian Viceregal Government's censors passed dispatches announcing that "Leaders of the Moslem community in Ethiopia" have addressed to the League of Nations expressions of "the strongest disapproval by the Arab community in Ethiopia of Great Britain's policy in Palestine...
...crony, a World War hero and onetime child prodigy singer who has been trying to commit suicide since adolescence; Gus Popolos, a Rasputin-like fanatic who wanders around in a moth-eaten bear rug, proclaims Colonel Steele the new Messiah, finally marries an outsmarted chorus girl; Moussa, a notorious Arab pickpocket, whom nobody understands except Captain Trolley; the mayor's katzenjammer son, whose snooping in Dr. Thumb's traveling bag is rewarded by a small mummified head which turns out to be that of the mayor's long-lost missionary father...