Word: arab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brimful of Jews, mostly from Adolf Hitler Land, the Polish immigrant steamer Polonia and the Italian Martha Washington made warily for Palestine this week, only to turn back when frantic radio warnings were flashed by British High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope who had practically an Arab insurrection on his hands...
...circle of Moslem advisers nicely balanced between Anglophiles and Anglophobes. He bequeathed, too, his brother and personal adviser, that AH ibn Hussein who was King of the Hejaz for a year (1924-25) after his father Hussein abdicated and before Ibn Saud drove him out. Among the Arab clique; who stalk between the slender pillars of the King's Palace in Bagdad, Ali is rated an Anglophile. Against him are the Finance Minister, the Army Commander and the leaders of the Arab Nationalist Party who hate Irak's alliance with Britain...
...view associated with the old Ottoman regime to which they give such sensational expression as is conveyed by the statements "massacre of Christians" and "fanatical Mohammedan slaughter." Such reference is a misrepresentation of the actual prevailing intentions on the part of Mohammedans, people and government, in Irak and other Arab countries...
...campaign of pacification," noting "resistance of rebellious tribesmen." Actually fierce, Berber horsemen have been fighting a costly war of thrust and ambush, much like the Indian wars of the western U. S. last century. The Berbers are a white race occasionally producing a blue-eyed blond. Unlike the Arabs who once conquered them, they are honest and straightforward. Their active, often pretty women go unveiled, enjoy more rights than Arab women. Remembering that they thrice conquered Spain, 25,000 nomad Berbers have been unable to accept the defeat in 1926 of their leader Abd-el-Krim. Brave, pious, made ferocious...
...Telegraph's chief traveling auditor. While still an undergraduate Bill Young published financial articles, invented a new type of slide rule. His method of calculating security values involves the use of 30 separate ratios. Now 32, married but childless, he lives on swank Sutton Place, uses his yacht Arab as a summer home...