Word: arab
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...World Zionist Congress. Never before has a Zionist congress had such a serious problem to discuss: the British scheme for the partition of Palestine which would divide Jewry's sentimental homeland into 1) a northern Jewish state, including most of Palestine's arable land, 2) a southern Arab state, 3) a kidney-shaped British strip including the port of Jaffa and the sacred city of Jerusalem (TIME, July 19, et ante...
...declining years was styled "King" (TIME, May 11, 1936 et ante). Last week, however, big-boned, fair and six-foot-tall Farouk I was correctly hailed by Egyptian dignitaries representing his 16,000,000 subjects as "The first Sovereign invested as King of modern Egypt, the Senior Arab Kingdom...
...photographs. Her Majesty is a descendant of a French com-mander of dragoons whom the Emperor Napoleon took to Egypt, and from this ancestor King Farouk inherits his "heavy dragoon" appearance, big-boned, healthy and hefty, with a fair complexion most rare in an Egyptian. Like many people of Arab strain, however, His Majesty is not only "quick at arithmetic" but also in the intricacies of higher mathematics. Like any Oriental potentate he keeps a taster who first samples his food lest he be poisoned, a bold little English licensed pharmacist, who is known in Egypt as Eric Titterington...
...Wrecker-whether Arab or Jew-is done!" he proclaimed, drawing cries of, "But Jews are not employing violence in Palestine...
...almost to reverse the Prime Minister's intentions and all his Palestine strategy. So many M. P.s leaped from their seats to vote Churchillwise that an official count would have gravely embarrassed Chamberlainians, and the Speaker hastily declared the amendment adopted without a vote. Generally in Jewish and Arab circles this putting of Palestine partition on ice until the League of Nations Council can get around to it next autumn was greeted "with relief...