Word: arabic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jewish-Arab situation in Palestine was destined to cause much angry protesting oratory in Cleveland this week. Last summer discontented Arabs rioted and massacred Jews in Jerusalem at the Wailing Wall, authentic, revered remnant of Solomon's Temple, and in outlying communities (TIME, Aug. 26 et seq ). An explanation of the Arab discontent appeared last week, by Hadji Aminal Husseini, Grand Mufti and President of the Supreme Moslem Council, chief religious and temporal leader of Palestine Arabs Jews buy land, leaving Arabs homeless. Abnormal Jewish immigration forces Arabs out of work. (Great Britain recently stopped such immigration.) Arabs have...
...remembered King Henry IV (Henry of Navarre) had boasted to his Captain Crillon: ''I was at Ivry, you were not there." After Justice Brandeis was ousted in 1912, the ré'gime of Louis Lipsky prospered greatly. But lately it has been criticized for the Jewish-Arab troubles, the estoppage of Palestine immigration, for inefficient management. Such things it can ride down at a convention. But it cannot efface its financial troubles. Zionism needs money.† Every country, including the U. S., is in a financial depression. It now hurts Jews to give. Only...
...Roman Catholic Church's Fathers, died at Hippo near Carthage, where he had done mighty work suppressing heresies, 1,500 years ago this year. So the Eucharistic Congress Committee chose Carthage, now the forlorn site of a Cathedral (dedicated to St. Louis), a museum, some ruins and 200 Arab houses, as the scene of the 30th Eucharistic Congress, begun last week...
...Sultan Moulay Ismail, "The Bloodthirsty," fell to grieving over the moral and physical disintegration of his Arab soldiers. He noticed that the black slaves brought to him from distant Senegal were lion-muscled, superbly built, and as fierce fighters as those ancient Arabs from North Africa who in the 8th Century had swept across southern Spain...
Shrewd, His Majesty determined to breed a new, better army. He sent troops of Arab slave drivers to beat the forests of Senegal for blacks. From the roundup, 10,000 of the most perfect men, 10,000 of the soundest maidens were selected, sent...