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...week, and so did Prince Moazzam Jah. Proceeding to Nice, France, these drab brothers were caparisoned with Oriental pomp, garlanded with flowers, buckled with jeweled swords and conducted by a suitably gorgeous retinue to the villa of His Holiness the politically deposed Caliph of Islam, goat-bearded Abdul Medjid Effendi, 63, still spiritually potent...
...drenched Riviera villa, high above champagne-soused Nice, lives the ex-Caliph of Islam who has no successor. Deposed and physically ousted from Turkey in 1924 by agnostic President Mustafa Kemal, Caliph Abdul Medjid Effendi is still to millions of Moslems "Commander of the Faithful" and "Viceregent of Allah...
...Nice ex-Caliph Abdul Medjid, though he sent up the engagement trial balloon, took care not to kill off his Jerusalem candidacy last week. His monocle-wearing Secretary Hussein Nakib Bey declared, "My august master. His Majesty the Caliph Abdul Medjid Effendi, constantly corresponds with the Grand Mufti of Palestine...
Patriarchal, seamy-faced, sad-eyed, the Expounder & Promoter died in 1921, aged 77. He had insured the hierarchic succession (though never claiming divinity) by providing a grandson to carry on. Shoghi Effendi who now lives in Haifa, Palestine. He had designated the U. S. as a Baha'i centre by laying the cornerstone of a mammoth Temple of Light near where Chicago's drainage canal flows out of Lake Michigan in Wilmette, Ill. This will serve the Baha'i's in the western world?some 3,000 believers. Less pretentious but serving some 2,000,000 communicants are the three...
...reception is certain to be a mob scene, the envy of Producers D. W. Griffith or Cecil B. De Mille. Imagine the quandary of even a well-informed newspaper correspondent, cornered perhaps by Pra Sundra Vachana, First Secretary of the Siamese legation, or Abu-el-Enein Salem Effendi, second attaché of the Egyptian legation, with the inquiry: "Monsieur, will you be so kind as to point out to me the gentlemen who have recently distinguished themselves in the operations of the Congress...