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This box was excavated by natives at Tell Abu-Maria, a village 20 miles west of Mosul. Another recent purchase is a collection of South-Arabian antiquities, including twelve short inscriptions on stone and small bas-reliefs on red sandstone...
Savage hand-to-hand battles in Madrid suburbs raged hotter every day as the week passed, and General Miaja announced with particular satisfaction that his Madrid machine guns had caught a wild Moorish charge by turbaned riders on Arabian steeds and mowed it down to the last horse and man. In the $25,000,000 University City founded by King Alfonso on the Capital's outskirts, fantastic conflicts raged among the modernistic buildings. Dispatches reported Madrid defenders gunning from behind books in the Philosophy library, selling their lives dearly among the Classics. In an international war, such as that...
...full-throated oratory of his younger days as Bomb Boy. The basso-profundo keynote of Zinoviev's confession came as he boomed: "I went all the way from party power to counterrevolution and terrorism and actually to Fascism! For Trotskyism plus terrorism is Fascism! I abandoned Karl Marx." Arabian Nights. In his dispatch the next afternoon United Press Correspondent Norman Deuel cabled a broad, revealing hint as to the nature of the trial which he managed to get past Soviet censors: "Unexpected histrionic ability by minor members of the cast robbed the stars of their spotlight today...
Trotsky's son Syedov was called a money-passer. One of the prisoners said the conspirators in Moscow had given him to be carried to Syedov Trotsky in Berlin a copy of The Arabian Nights. "It served in some way which I do not remember as a secret code book," finished up Prisoner Holzmann, scratching his head with a puzzled...
...London Times correspondent has said that the Arabians will meet the same fate as the Indians in North America. We feel sorry for the Jews in Europe but we can't see why we should be the victims of their colonial expansion. . . . Italian propaganda in Palestine probably exists to some extent but I see no reason why we should exchange British rule for Italian. On the contrary, the Italian occupation of Ethiopia is a threat against the two independent states on the Arabian peninsula: Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Mussolini has no chance of gaining followers among the Arabians...