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...weirdly noisy ''singing sands'' and called the Riilxi-aI-Khali or "Abode of Loneliness" (TIME. March 9. 1931). Last week the U. S. State Department received its only notice of King Ibn Saud's doings from his Minister in London, the Sheikh Hafiz Wahba. Calling at the U.S. Embassy the Sheikh suavely announced that "in accordance with the wishes of his subjects, His Majesty . . . has graciously consented" to change the name of the Land of Saud...
...Finally, when the "Holy War" had been fully exploited by Jew correspondents of Jerusalem and by sundry gentile newsgatherers in Irak, a statement forthcame from Ibn Saud. Through his representative at Cairo, Sheik Hafiz Wahba, the Sultan positively denied that he was making war upon the British Mandates, and stated that he was doing his best to quiet certain pugnacious bands of his tribesmen subjects who had been raiding along the frontier...
...your slaves meant to draw aside the curtain of his being to you; but, although he has been silent while among these dogs of Giaours (whom may the Prophet roast in Gehenna !) he has not ceased to think of his Beeghaz, for how truly has our divine poet Hafiz* said...
...Poetical Editor. Is this Hafiz? It sounds very familiar. Chorus of Editors. Well, don't you ever read Hafiz? Poetical Editor. Hardly ever...
Those who recognize the catholicity which the trustees of the Library have shown in the selection of books will be surprised to learn that the poems of the Persian poet, Omar Khayam, are not on its shelves. The poems of Saadi and Hafiz are there, but, notwithstanding the fact that there is an elegant English translation of this astronomer poet, none of his works can be found in the College Library except his Algebra, and a few extracts from his verses published in the North American Review...