Word: bagdad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Gertrude Bell died last week. When Death entered her low, rambling, exquisitely luxurious home in Bagdad, Great Britain lost the most remarkable and certainly the most charming woman who has served the Empire in a century. Middleaged, but slender and quick as a girl, she was by title only Oriental secretary to Sir Henry Dobbs, British High Commissioner to Irak. Actually Sir Henry, King Faisal of Irak, and Premier Abdul Mushsin Beg al Ga'dun, deferred consistently to her as the most brilliant and profound feminine apostle of Anglo-Mesopotamian concord who ever lived. The kingdom of Irak...
Died. A. B. Elliott, British air plane mechanic; at Basra, Irak (near Bagdad). A wandering Arab shot him while on duty flying low over the desert in a plane piloted by Lieut. Alan Cobhain...
Tonight is the annual request night at the Pops. The program follows: Introduction to set III, "Lohengrin" Wagner Waltz "on the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauss Largo Handel (Solo Violin, Harp, Organ and Strings) Fantasia, "Fedora" Giordano Finale of "Scheherazade" Rimsky-Korsakov Festival at Bagdad. The Sea The Ship goes to Pieces against a form Surmounted by a Bronze Warrior Conclusion Deep River Arranged by Jacchia Indian Dirge Seldel Ouverture Solennolle, "1812" Tchaikovsky Second Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt Ave Maria Schubert-Wilhelmj Pomp and Circumstance Elgar Encores: Song of the Volga Bargemen Arranged by Jacchia Kammenoi Ostrow (Reve Angelique) Rubinstein Flight...
...counter-armaments, diplomacy, national honor, and the press. He shows how these factors were at work since 1870 in Europe. He sketches the formation of the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente. He goes deeper into such specific causes for unrest as Morocco, the annexation of Bosnia, Tripoli, the Bagdad Railway, Persia, the Far East, and the Balkan wars...
...specific objects of the pact were said to be the return to Greece of Smyrna and its hinterland, and the occupation by Italy of Adalia (Turkey) and its hinterland along the Bagdad railway. Thus Italy would seize at last the territory promised her in the secret Pact of London (1915), which induced her to join the Allies in the World...