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Madame, This Is A Mosque. The theme of A Passage to India is the relations of the English in India and the Indians. Its pathos and irony result from the failure of good will of people on both sides (typified by Mrs. Moore and Dr. Aziz) to do much more than complicate the problem...
There in the darkness a Moslem was worshipping. He was Dr. Aziz, educated in England, touchy as a porcupine and delightful and unexpected as a child, proud (the descendant of bodyguards of the Mogul Emperors), a good polo player, a widower with three children, filled with the turbulent, conflicting emotions of a subject people whose ancestors tamed elephants. Dr. Aziz had just been royally snubbed by the English-twice. As he sat in the mosque, repeating poetry that brought tears to his eyes and thinking that some day he, too, would build a mosque, he discovered Mrs. Moore: "Madame, this...
Princes and Palestine. Few days before, two main foes of the main Jewish idea had been feted, dined, greeted, and generally given the full red-carpet treatment. The foes: Prince Feisal, Foreign Minister to Saudi Arabia's wily Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, and younger brother Prince Khalid. The grave, observant Arab Princes, ostensibly here to study "Southwest irrigation projects," thus far seemed to be spending a great deal more time with diplomatic bigwigs than in inspecting irrigation ditches...
...Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia gave President Roosevelt (through visiting Princes Feisal and Khalid) a three-foot sword with a diamond-studded grip and curved blade of Damascus steel...
King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia has a rarely visited kingdom about four times the size of Texas, the right of life & death over 4,000,000 subjects; 1,000 automobiles; some 30 sons. To Washington last week, from Ibn Saud's sand-swept kingdom, came two of the latter-Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Feisal, his brother Prince Khalid-perhaps to discuss oil concessions to the U.S., perhaps to iron out problems concerning Palestine...