Word: circassians
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...cautiously over their shoulders) admit to being pro-Nasser and anti-Hussein. A government censor scans the Amman newspapers to be sure they contain nothing critical of King Hussein; yet he also smilingly taps a picture of Egypt's Nasser and observes: "A good man." Surrounded by his Circassian bodyguards, King Hussein meets with Bedouin chiefs from the north, tells them that he is ready to sacrifice his life for his country if necessary. In a voice shaking with emotion, he adds that Jordan has "offered lessons in nationalism to those who brag about nationalism...
Ethnically Syria is a melting pot of Arab, Kurd, Turcoman, Circassian, Armenian and a score of forgotten peoples, but of its 3,900,000 inhabitants 86% are Moslem. Besides orthodox Moslems, there are Jews, five major varieties of Christian, a sprinkling of devil worshipers and 117,000 Druses, hard-bitten mountaineers who hate Christians, are free to ignore Moslem fasts and believe that an 11th century Egyptian caliph was the last incarnation...
...handsome, virile Turk named Nuri Bey takes revenge by killing Captain Michales' brother. But the brother, with the last dying thrust of his dagger, emasculates Nuri Bey. The unmanning of the Turk would scarcely disturb Captain Michales, except that Nuri Bey's wife, an almond-eyed Circassian beauty, is already in his blood as if he had drunk a love potion. Captain Michales smothers his desire, but smolders over his comrade-in-arms, Captain Polyxigis, who does...
Colonel Philibert Collet's anti-Vichy Circassians, who descend from the Russians that went from the Caucasus to Turkey 80 years ago, found themselves blazing away at a detachment of fellow Circassians. After an exchange of appropriate Circassian signals, the Vichy Circassians came forth and fell on colorful Colonel Collet's Circassians' necks. Two bodies of Foreign Legionnaires drew beads on each other, but this mistake, too, was soon put right. After four days Kisswe capitulated...
Also helping the Allies will be colorful General Philibert Collet, who escaped into Trans-Jordan recently with bloodthirsty detachments of Circassian and Ismaili tribesmen. Vichy authorities had suspected him of De Gaullist leanings and dispatched him away from the border to Damascus. Mme. Collet took a room in a Damascus hotel in her husband's name and a junior officer was stationed there to answer phone calls until she and the General could make their getaway. At the frontier, guarded by quick-firing Senegalese, Mme. Collet stepped on the gas of her husband's car, hooted the horn...