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...independent sovereign; possession of the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina. 3) None of the at present outstanding Mohammedan potentates possesses all three qualifications. 4) Should one or more qualifications be waived, the following potentates might well precipitate innumerable struggles in an effort to obtain the Califate: King Fuad of Egypt, King Feisal of Irak, President Mustafa Kemal of Turkey, Shah Reza of Persia, the Aga Kahn of Bombay, the Sultan of Morocco, King Abdulla of Transjordania, Imam Yahya of Yemen, the Idrisi of Asir, Sultan Ibn Saud of Nejd and the Hejaz, Sheik Achmet of the Senussites...
...John D. Rockefeller Jr. relieve King Fuad of embarrassment...
...political leaders (TIME, March 1 et seq.), John D. Rockefeller Jr. last week withdrew his offer to build in Cairo and endow a ten-million-dollar "Temple of the Unfolding Life of Man." A finishing touch to the farce was added by Mr. Rockefeller. His last letter to King Fuad of Egypt explained that the gift was withdrawn "to relieve the Egyptian Government of embarrassment." Still fumbling about for reasons for Egypt's reluctance other than the seemingly true one? Egypt's political misgivings and entanglements?Premier Ziwar Pasha was reported to have offered the ingenious statement: " . . . . unfortunately, before action...
Proud Egyptian nationalists had maintained a muttering opposition. Sensitive Egyptian government archeologists had been afraid it would cast a slur on their efficiency, as they had felt when Carter and Carnarvon entered Luxor. Egyptian liberals, Egyptian scholars and King Fuad were of course quite overcome with astonished gratitude and eagerness, but they could not offend the mutterers, and an amazing bit of munificence hung fire because of a hitch at the receiving...
...last week Professor Breasted was indiscreet. He announced Mr. Rockefeller's offer prematurely, that is, before Egypt's acceptance was certain. The figure announced was the exceedingly plump one of ten millions. So swift and sweeping was public enthusiasm that the opposition could but dwindle. King Fuad waited to compose his reply, but a Rockefeller architect, fresh from Cairo, declared that all was well, that plans were already being draughted for two one-story buildings to stand on the island of Gezira, opposite Cairo's richest residential quarter. These are to cost about five and a half millions, the balance...