Word: beys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saudi Arabia was merely a desert mirage. Not that Ibn Saud was hostile to the idea. But he believed that Allah had entrusted him with the divine mission of knitting all Arabs into one nation. Knowing this, Farouk had sent his Minister of Arab Affairs, patient Abdel Rahman Azzam Bey, to win over Ibn Saud. Last month the equally patient potentate, who acts only on his own terms, accepted the protocol. Forthwith Farouk himself sailed for Yenbo to pay his personal respects to the older King...
...running board of Lord Moyne's car. Hakim had shot the Minister, Tsouri had stabbed his chauffeur to death. Then the prisoners began to expound the Stern credo of violence. They justified the assassination as an act of war against a foreign invader (Britain). Austere Mahmoud Mansour Bey, the presiding judge, tried vainly to halt the torrent of burning words. At last he ordered reporters not to record them. The prisoners, he ruled, could not use an Egyptian court as their political forum...
Some of our correspondents ate Christmas dinner in style. Steve Laird was invited to a castle outside London where he "drank good wine and listened to 1928 American phonograph records." In Cairo P. B. Stoyan dined in Oriental splendor at the home of an Egyptian Bey, a good Moslem who allowed neither women nor wine at the three-hour feast (which included five meat courses). In the Argentine Holland McCombs played host to the bachelor correspondents with an asado (barbecue) right on the edge of the pampas. And half the world away in New Delhi Bill Fisher, Bill Vandivert...
Before week's end, the Bey got fired. General Henri Giraud, Civil and Military Chief of French North Africa, ruled that Sidi Mounsaf had compromised Tunisia's "external and internal security" by truckling with the Axis. To the beylical throne, in accordance with dynastic tradition, went Sidi Mounsaf's oldest living male relative, unpolitical Sidi Al Amin...
...Safety. General Giraud was dealing with a delicate and potentially troublesome situation. Tunisia's 2,300,000 Moslem Arabs and Bedouins look with feudal reverence to the Bey as their spiritual and temporal lord. Of all French North African Moslems, the Tunisians are the most politically conscious, most resentful of their status as the political inferiors of Tunisia's 110,000 resident French, 95,000 Italians...