Word: arab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marines in their glorious onslaught upon the barbarians of Barbary, a hero whose name many U. S. schoolchildren once knew, Captain William Eaton. Under his leader ship and the Stars & Stripes, the capture of Derna was made by 10 U. S. Marines, 38 Greeks and 400 Arab mercenaries...
...Italian Pavilion to capacity to hear great Arturo Toscanini lead Palestine's first civic orchestra through its first performance. Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, the British High Commissioner, brought with him a party of notables. Open-shirted German immigrants gathered in rowboats on the adjacent Yarkon River. A few Arab fishermen paddled quietly toward shore, listened respectfully outside the pavilion walls which are still pitted by Arab bullets...
...thirds deal with Lawrence's days as a private in the Air Force, which he joined in August 1922 after resigning his rank as Political Adviser in the Colonial Office. The remainder tells of his less harrowing days in the Cadet Corps. To protest the betrayal of the Arab cause at the Peace Conference, at which his promises to Arab leaders were broken, Lawrence refused his Colonial Office salary for six months, worked in an architect's office, went hungry, was down to 15 pence when he enlisted under the name of Ross. At night in the barracks...
...department: "The Palestine Government has chosen to permit the threat of outbreak and violence to remain poised over the heads of Palestine Jewry. With more than 20,000 British troops at its disposal in Palestine, it has treated with the leaders of the revolt, failed to disarm the Arab gangs, failed to establish a water-tight system of frontier-control...
Last but not least to be included in this Jewish denunciation was British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden whose diplomatic representatives, it was darkly declared, "have not been inactive at the courts of the Arab princes...