Word: arabs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incomprehensible industry he controlled the natives, pushed British trade, extored, painted, studied native languages, worked as a botanist and zoologist, wrote books and articles, dealt with the delicate diplomatic questions raised by the colonial rivalry of the other European nations. He undertook exhausting expeditions, fought minor wars with Arab slave traders, assisted the missionaries to make the African world safe for commerce, apparently did it all with the utmost British gravity...
...Saud. After a long struggle, King Hussein's escort repelled the attackers. The trouble between King Hussein and the Emir of Riyadh is over the demarcation of the eastern boundary of Hedjas, the alleged aspiration of King Hussein to the Caliphate and the mooted creation of a Pan-Arab Confederation with King Hussein as Emperor...
More fighting in Tripoli. Another Italian victory. "Six hundred rebels killed, including many Arab chiefs. Two hundred and fifty rifles taken." Italian losses: one killed, two wounded. Italian native troops lost: 18 killed, 84 wounded. Another victory was expected...
...misogynist. His wife had run off with another, so he straightway went to the Sahara and became a sheik-El Hakim-or (in English) M. D. His path crossed that of Marny, Lady Geraldine. Her husband was a perfect brute, but she was loyal. Ensued sandstorms, struggles with Arab assassins, lots of noble self-sacrifice, wads of local color. "And with a little cry. . . . she lifted her lips to his." Swift exciting rubbish by the author of The Sheik-a perfect specimen of what used to be called a hammock book. HOMELAND-Margaret Hill McCarter-Harper ($2.00). Jack Lorton, before...
...foreign policy of the British Government now tends to conciliate the Arabs, particularly those of Transjordania, Hedjaz and Iraq (Mesopotamia). A divorce between British foreign policy and Zionism coupled with effective Arab resistance in Palestine itself, renders Sir Herbert's position intolerable. He intends to offer his resignation on his return to England...