Word: arab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vexed Britain and France for years by giving asylum in Rome to prominent Islamites who for one reason or another have been run out of the Great Powers' colonies. Last week these sloe-eyed clients of the sloe-eyed Duce were zealously trying to recruit for him fierce Arab troops for use as mercenaries against Ethiopia. In Jerusalem, however, the Emir Abdullah of Transjordania, who keeps his throne with the aid of British bombing planes, lashed out with an interview which made prime reading in London...
...personally do not like Mussolini," said the Emir. "His manner of speaking and the way he appears in photographs make me imagine him to be a cheap comedian. His pompous personal demonstrations do not appeal to the Arab, accustomed as we are to the simplicity of the Sahara. I wish I could be the first Arab to enroll as a volunteer to protect Ethiopia, the ancient friend of Mohammed! What a shame that Rome-the capital of Christianity-is attempting to enslave one of the most ancient Christian nations. It is something more than Power, it is Heathenism...
...long dead Empress.* Silver collected from Italians last week and minted into Maria Theresa dollars was impressed with Maria Theresa's death date, 1780, only date considered any good by Ethiopian chiefs whom Signor Mussolini expects to bribe to desert their Emperor, as well as by Arab sheiks whom II Duce plans to hire from across the Red Sea and fling under Islam's banner against Negro soldiers of the Cross...
Excerpts: "The only people getting rich out of this affair are the British, who are selling water; Arab sailors, who have brought their dhows [native sailboats] in clusters from all other Red Sea ports for use in unloading Italian vessels, and, ironically, the Ethiopians themselves, who keep on selling coffee to the Italians...
...Italian soldiers and workers sleep stark naked in the streets to escape the heat; others toil in a blistering sun without cork helmets and still others beg money from Arab sailors to buy food, which they are unable to buy with their meager...