Word: arabic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME, never professionally humorous, regrets the semblance of humor which marred its factual report of what occurred when Jewish worshippers were dragged (some by the beard) from the Wailing Wall by brutal Arab police. The report chiefly concerned physical violence. It concerned only incidentally a religious custom which, on other occasions, TIME has described to the satisfaction of many a devout...
Such wailing has gone reverently on for centuries and it is only recently that the Anglo-Arab police have interfered (TIME, Oct. 8). Last week their action in driving Jews away from the Wailing Wall was described as an "atrocity" by leading Jewish news organs everywhere. Unperturbed, the Anglo-Arab police prepared to keep the Jews at bay While the Mohammedan owners of the Wall proceed to lay an extra course or two of stone upon it-seemingly with no other purpose than to render all Jewry aghast at the sacrilege...
...troop of Anglo-Arab police perceiving the imminence of Moslem brickbats and desirous that the Day of Atonement should not become a day of stonement, tried to disperse the Jewish ululators...
...that John Geste, survivor, is even the hero of the present yarn, but it is for his sake that Otis Vanbrugh, chief protagonist, braves countless risky episodes, Arab raids, hand-to-hand fights, imprisonment, penal servitude. Otis ransacks the heart of Africa for John Geste, who in turn is trying to find two lost friends, Buddy and Hank. The first coincidence: Otis and Geste, both serving in the Foreign Legion penal colony, are both dumped into a dark silo, and forgotten. Otis recognizes Geste by his boyhood expression-"stout fella." Second coincidence: in the middle of the desert Otis appeals...
Since Palestine is held by Great Britain as a Mandate from the League of Nations, it was to that body that the Palestine Arab Congress addressed, last week, the following appeal...