Word: arab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even as a Zionist, I can see that neither the Arab nor the Jew will receive complete control of Palestine. However, I believe even the editors of TIME can understand that a legislative council composed of 13 Arabs, eight Jews and five Britons, while mathematically speaking, gives the Jew more representation than his present population warrants, certainly does not adequately protect the interests and investment of Jews in Palestine. Before the Jews began rehabilitating Palestine, the country was one uncivilized and barbarous; reeking with poverty, malaria, cholera and similar plagues. Through the activity of various Zionist organizations such as Hadassah...
...Jerusalem worried High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope took time off from the Arab-Jewish riots that have plagued Jerusalem for a month to meet Haile Selassie at the station platform. A strike had tied up every taxi in the Holy City, but union leaders made a concession by permitting ten cabs to transfer the Royal party from the station to the King David Hotel. A great crowd had assembled behind armed British guards at the station square, burst into roars of "Long Live Ethiopia!" "Long Live Emperor Haile Selassie!" Big tears rolled down the little man's dusky...
Sent out with a patrol to Certain Death, Colman stalls for time in the tent of an Arab chieftain who turns out to have been an Oxford classmate. In a sequence which should induce Hollywood to investigate England's famed Victorian society novelist further, the Arab remarks: "You remember our soccer games? Well, we shall play soccer, on horseback. And you, ho-ho, shall be the ball...
Everybody expected that the crisis would be reached during the noonday Friday (Moslem Sunday) service in Jerusalem's Mosque of Omar. The orthodox extremist Rabbi Moses Blau asked the Government to keep Arab villagers out of Jerusalem on that day, was told that the Government could not interfere in the religious affairs of the Arabs. Said the Rabbi: "That is the same reply I received on Aug. 23, 1929, just one hour before the big massacre of Jews began" (TIME, Sept...
High Commissioner Wauchope, however, had taken his own precautions. For four hours he stopped long-distance telephone service to prevent the spread of false rumors. He disseminated counter-rumors of his own. The police machine guns would fire, not into the air, but into the mob at any future Arab disturbance. Thus the Friday services were attended, not by the expected tens of thousands of Arabs, but by 500. When the Arabs came out of the Mosque, detachments of police fell in before and behind them, led nonresidents quietly out of the city...