Word: hejaz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lean King Feisal died last month (TIME, Sept. 18), he bequeathed to his son Ghazi a political juggling act: a circle of Moslem advisers nicely balanced between Anglophiles and Anglophobes. He bequeathed, too, his brother and personal adviser, that AH ibn Hussein who was King of the Hejaz for a year (1924-25) after his father Hussein abdicated and before Ibn Saud drove him out. Among the Arab clique; who stalk between the slender pillars of the King's Palace in Bagdad, Ali is rated an Anglophile. Against him are the Finance Minister, the Army Commander and the leaders...
...Word that the King-Emperor was rising in the Conference lift caused 800 delegates, experts and correspondents to scramble to their feet. Stiff and silent to honor His Majesty, benign sovereign of one-quarter of all mankind, stood white chief delegates in cutaways, white-robed Indians, the gaily turbaned Hejaz delegate and the head of only one state, President Schulthess of Switzerland. George V, who had driven straight in from Windsor Castle, sprang an immediate surprise. Instead of speaking straight English (as scheduled) he skipped back & forth between English and French: "Gentlemen. ... I believe this is the first time...
Morally straight as a sceptre, physically supple and strong as a beast of prey is the mightiest man in the Middle East, King Ibn Saud. Last week he changed the name of his realm which has been "The Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd and Its Dependencies." Renaming this huge desert hodgepodge partly after himself, tall, frowning Ibn Saud christened...
Arabia was at peace last week. Hard-hitting Ibn Saud, King of the Hejaz, had stopped a brief but bloody revolt. Correspondents hurried down to Dhaba on the Red Sea to see what all the shooting was for. They got there at dusk as the desert heat was lifting. A crowd of little boys in dirty, torn abas were shrilly playing football on the dusty plain. Their football did not bounce. It was the lacerated, eyeless head of Hamad Ibn Ra fada, defeated chieftain of the Bili tribe...
...months ago Hamad Ibn Rafada crossed the Hejaz border from Transjordania at the head of 800 armed Bedouins, swearing that he would march to Mecca, depose Ibn Saud, set up a new prince of the old Hashimite dynasty. Ibn Saud sent 1,000 followers out to meet him near Jebel Shammarwith machine guns, armored cars. After a nine-hour battle the Bili were routed, 360 were killed. Hamad Ibn Rafada was decapitated, his head sent to Dhaba where the boys got a new plaything...