Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dreams of a great unified, Arab Near Eastern State-so carefully fostered by Great Britain's warrior-statesmen in 1914-18-were wrecked in the subsequent peace treaties by European "divide-&-rule" policies. Men like Lawrence of Arabia believed, led the Arabs to believe, that with the defeat of Turkey and the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire one great homogeneous Arab nation of essentially the same race, same religion, same culture, would stretch from the southern borders of the Anatolian plateau to the fantastically shaped rocks of Aden...
...Passos saw famine and typhus in the Near East, talked over Bolshevik atrocities with Russian refugees, Turkish atrocities with Greeks and Armenians, English duplicity with Arabs. In Spain he was startled to hear a mountain peasant exclaim, "America is the world of the future." In Arabia a native told him owlishly that the English "were united and used their guns only to shoot strangers, while the Arabs were always squabbling among themselves and were very nice to strangers." Hating high-flown sentiments in all forms (he read Juvenal on the way to Damascus, did not like it because "I smell...
Among the books, many given by Paul J. Sachs, '00, Syndic of the University Press, is a book of letters from T. E. Shaw, better known as Lawrence of Arabia. Others by Kipling, Richard Aldington, and Albrecht Durer, sixteenth century engraver, make up the exhibit...
...Saudi Arabia, in Palestine, Syria. Egypt and the other Arab lands of North Africa many Arabs faced the New Year last week with little food and less money, but plenty of others had new radio sets, many of them two. All were delivered absolutely free by suave efficient young men who set them up, tuned and locked them at a certain wave length, and departed smiling amiably...
Birthday presents received by 42-year-old Bertie included: a smoking cabinet with pipes and Virginia cigarets from his daughters; four magnificent Arabian steeds from King Ibn Saud of Saudi-Arabia; a telegram from Adolf Hitler...