Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starting from scratch 31 years ago, Ibn Saud has successfully bluffed the British, reduced hostile cities by siege after bloody siege (in 1924-25 he besieged Medina, where Mohammed lies buried, for 15 months) and hacked out a kingdom of 4,000,000 souls in the middle of Arabia (900,000 square miles). Accredited to the Court of Ibn Saud are exactly two diplomats, the British Minister and the Soviet Minister. Last week their Legations were in at the christening, flattered His Majesty with notes of congratulation in English and Russian which he, peering through his thick, steel-rimmed spectacles...
Because non-Moslems are barred from Mecca during the pilgrim season upon pain of death; because Ibn Saud and his personal followers are so strict that they might be called Moslem Fundamentalists; and because few Christians care a whoop what happens in Arabia, news from the Land of Saud is always scarce, usually untrustworthy. Biggest Christian news of recent years was the 58-day trek of English Explorer Bertram Thomas across 900 miles of arid waste, famed for its weirdly noisy ''singing sands'' and called the Riilxi-aI-Khali or "Abode of Loneliness" (TIME. March...
...Arabia was at peace last week. Hard-hitting Ibn Saud, King of the Hejaz, had stopped a brief but bloody revolt. Correspondents hurried down to Dhaba on the Red Sea to see what all the shooting was for. They got there at dusk as the desert heat was lifting. A crowd of little boys in dirty, torn abas were shrilly playing football on the dusty plain. Their football did not bounce. It was the lacerated, eyeless head of Hamad Ibn Ra fada, defeated chieftain of the Bili tribe...
...tries hard to save the Colombe fortune. Jourdaine, married to a petulant diplomat, stays at Saint Saturnin, harried by the spectacle of her father's second childhood. Nicholas, thoughtful and lonely, tries hard to keep up appearances at the chateau. Jourdaine's son arrives from soldiering in Arabia in time to help him. Their affection for each other is cemented by their sympathy...
...Kalat differs from the other states of the Indian Empire," said Lord Willingdon from his Throne, "in that it is a confederacy of nomad tribes, closely akin to the khanates of Central Asia and the emirates of Arabia." This being so, His Excellency voiced special pleasure in greeting on behalf of George V and installing on the Kalat Throne a tall, white-robed nomad who advanced majestically and was hailed by the Viceroy with his full name and rank, "Mir Azam Jang Khan, Wali of Kalat and Khan of the Brahui Confederacy...