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...rolls. Then a redhaired, blue-eyed man, who looked more German than Arab,* climbed into one of the sedans. The convoy filed out of Damascus, swung southward into Palestine. The Teutonic-looking man borrowed a phrase from General Douglas Mac Arthur. Said he: "I have returned." Ahead of Fawzi Bey Kawukji had come some 10,000 Arab volunteers. About one thousand more are entering each week. The Arab "rescue" of Palestine had begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: I Have Returned | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...Defeats. Although Fawzi Bey, once an officer in the Turkish army, was born in Lebanon 53 years ago, he was no stranger to Palestine. There he got some of the 80-odd wounds which still sometimes make his popeyes water with pain. He had spent a lifetime fighting for Arab independence against the British and French. Now he was returning to Palestine to command the northern sector in the fight against Zionism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: I Have Returned | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...Fawzi Bey had yet to prove that he could capably command a force of many thousands. So far his battles had ended in defeats: by the French in Syria, by the British in Palestine, and in Iraq (where he fought with Nazi help) during World War II. A British plane strafed, and almost killed him, in Iraq. He went to Germany to recuperate. There he helped stir up the Arab world against the British, married a German girl (his third wife), was held by the conquering Russians until February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: I Have Returned | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

Lana Turner, 27, has been married to Band Leader Artie Shaw and Actor Stephen Crane (married, annulled, remarried, divorced-one child). She had also been linked, as the columnists say, with Turhan Bey, George Huntington Hartford Jr., Victor Mature, Clark Gable, Tyrone Power and-just before she met Topping-a Yale man named Talbot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Musical Chairs | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...challenge of the athletic, tweedy, young Oxford-trained dons of Fuad el Awal and Farouk el Awal universities has only intensified the religious fanaticism of Al Azhar's bearded sheikhs. Each year the Senatus combs the secular universities in search of heresy. When blind Philosopher Taha Hussein Bey, dean of Fuad el Awal and leading man in Arab letters, dared to teach Shaw's Saint Joan, he was assailed by Al Azhar's Senatus. (In the play, a character denounces Mohamed and his "dupes.") Rioting Al Azharites forced Taha Hussein to resign, the fuss broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Resplendent | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

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