Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most interesting, however, are the author's comments on Colonel T. E. Lawrence. No Lawrence-worshipper, Mr. Antonius says that the famed colonel's Arabic was far from perfect, would have deceived no one in Arabia. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom is full of misunderstandings, defects, errors. The Lawrence account of his almost singlehanded capture of Aqaba, Mr. Antonius suggests, is bragging. Auda Abu Tayeh, ally of Feisal, planned the attack and, with Feisal's approval, executed it, independent of outside help. The Lawrence chronicle of British-Arab negotiations is "confused and chronologically impossible...
That the U. S. became a nation of coffee-swizzlers was no more accident than Great Britain's taking to tea. Coffee reached England about 1650 from Arabia, tea about 1857 from China. In the interval, England's great East India Company let Dutch and French exporters grab most of the coffee trade. So British patriots turned to tea. Later, the East India Company tried to force its monopoly on the American Colonies under the notorious Tea Act. So American patriots held the Boston Tea Party and turned to coffee...
...young officers, lent by the 8th Route (former Communist) Army, veteran Manchurian fighters and college students plan widespread attacks, the Associated Pressman discovered their well-thumbed textbook on guerrilla warfare: a translation of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by the late famed Lieut.-Colonel T. E. Lawrence of Arabia...
...face of the earth they took up the dances of other nations, forgot their own. But one small group of about 3,000 Jews did not forget: the Yemenite Jews* who, driven from Jerusalem by the Roman conquerors in 132 A. D., settled in a corner of southwestern Arabia, where they have carried the traditions of Old Testament life down to the present...
...half-legendary hero-philosopher of the desert revolt retired to write, refused all honors and titles offered by "perfidious Albion," died in a motorcycle accident three years ago. Instead of one Arab nation, so far there have emerged from the old Ottoman confines five major states: Saudi Arabia, the Yemen, Trans-Jordan, Palestine, Iraq. Lebanon and Syria are soon to come to independent statehood. Of these, only Saudi Arabia, ruled by strong-willed King Ibn Saud, can really call its soul...