Word: hedjaz
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...deposed Sultan, Mohammed VI, appointed a delegation of nine to accompany him to Lausanne, where he intends to plead the cause of Islam against the Kemalists. He has left Mecca in the Hedjaz, where he was the guest of King Hussein, and is now en route for Switzerland...
With regard to the Mosul question, it is apparent that Mosul does not belong to the Turks, and, therefore, is not within their jurisdiction. At the moment that city, with its outlying oil district, is situated in the extreme north of the Kingdom of Hedjaz, and under a mandate held by Great Britain from the League of Nations. The question resolves itself to this: Turkey will try to interest America at Lausanne to back her claim to Mosul. It is in effect a political quid pro quo. Turkey will receive Mosul and American interests will work...
...first time since the last days of the great Caliphate, the opportunity to rehabilitate himself in the eyes of the world. What complicates the affair from the British point of view, is the fact that Irak's bitter enemy is the other Arab kingdom of the Hedjaz, also subsidized from British coffers...