Word: beys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time we reached the disputed intersection, 400 surrendered Germans were being shepherded from the grounds of the Bey of Tunis' palace. There was rifle fire going on behind smoke clouds as some fanatical Germans still sniped at tanks...
Conquering Allied troops heard that the Bey of Tunis, hawk-nosed, pouchy-eyed Sidi Mohammed Al Mounsaf, had fled to Europe with his Axis friends. But a British lieutenant found the sovereign in a bomb proof cave near his palace. Later, when a British major general called to pay his respects, the Bey had out his bodyguard, his band, and his 25 wives. The Bey himself, in grey suit and red tarboosh, complained that bombs broke the glass in his blue, bougainvillaea-covered palace near Tunis. The general apologized...
Most exotic group of convicted objectors (7%) were Negro "Moslems," who discard their "slave names" when they embrace their new religion and presently get new ones (like John Jones Bey) from Mecca. Their reason for refusal to serve was simple: In Mecca, war has not been declared...
...largely Christian Lebanon, where Moslems are mistrusted, the Fighting French had better, luck. Last week in Beirut they set up a new government under slight, grave-faced Maitre Sami Bey el Solb, who had fought the Turks in World War I side by side with T. E. Lawrence and King Feisal. Around him Premier el Solh gathered a strong Cabinet and prepared to hold a free election for the Presidency and Parliament. And in Cairo, Premier el Solh has another friend even more potent than Fighting Frenchman Catroux: Egypt's roving-eyed Premier, Nahas Pasha...
Died. Sidi Ahmed II, 80, Bey of Tunis; in Tunis. An elegant, round little man, bearded, pince-nez'd, for 13 years he was a figurehead ruler of the French protectorate, enjoyed a peaceful "reign" of cooperation with the French, amassed a full treasury, an enviable harem...