Word: haj
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arabs, the British solution was a big victory. The extremist Arabs, followers of the exiled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el Husseini, were inclined to hold out for their original demands-complete Arab control of an independent Palestine-but the moderate Palestine Arabs and the Arabs from the other nations represented at the Round-Table meeting were disposed to accept the British plan. In Palestine, Arabs openly demonstrated their satisfaction with the British suggestions. Arab crowds took to the streets to celebrate "the reconquest of Palestine from the British." In the Holy Land this week bloody clashes among Jews...
...weeks armed Arab rebels, under German-trained General Abdul Rahim Haj Mohammed, former Turkish-Arab commander, have filtered into Jerusalem, some entering secretly through underground passages, others in disguise through the Old City's gates. By increasingly violent terrorism they had made life so dangerous for individual officers of the law that the British withdrew from most of the Old City to the largely Christian and Jewish city beyond the walls, there to await reinforcements...
While those two big Christian chieftains, Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler, were conferring at Godesberg on world peace last week, in Palestine another peace conference was held between its biggest two Mohammedan terrorist leaders, seven-foot-tall Abdul Rahim Haj Mohammed and Arif Abdul Razik, former Iraq Army officer. Each of these potent terrorists has been signing himself "Commander-in-Chief" of the Arab revolutionary forces. Each has persisted in issuing orders to the other...
Considered the money-dispensing leader of Arab terrorists, Haj Amin el Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, remained in exile in nearby French-mandated Lebanon. But in London the much respected Times blared forth against him: "It is impossible to expect an early termination of this tragic state while the Mufti is using French-mandated territory for his operations. . . . Meanwhile, young Jews, with their patience exhausted and with the obvious inability of the British to protect them, are having a fling at their Arab enemies! cost them what...
...wave and tidal action and the protection of foreshores. Whether on a Christian or Moslem impulse, Lord Headley during the War urged that ten interned Germans be put to death for every British child or woman killed by bombs. He made his pilgrimage to Mecca, earned the title "Al Haj" in addition to his Moslem name Saifurrahman Sheikh Rahmahillah Farooq. In 1925 he was offered the kingship of Moslem Albania, declined it when refused $500,000 and $50,000 a year...