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...Protests were submitted against the atrocities-atrocities unheard of in any civilized or even uncivilized government-but all the protests voiced by Moslem countries and all the Moslem world remain unheeded. Indeed, they are. disregarded in such a manner as to constitute an insult to all Moslems. A Moslem cannot let himself be insulted or disgraced. Consequently a jihad has become imperative, the duty falling on every Moslem to sacrifice either himself or money. The jihad is intended to save holy Moslem Palestine from people who are playing with its destiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Fatal Fatwa | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...King Makers'' of the American Legion he became National Commander in 1932-33. That turned out to be his great piece of fortune. For in 1933 Franklin Roosevelt's Economy Act decreed a cut in veterans' benefits, and temperate Louis Johnson saved the President from insult when he appeared at the Legion convention in Chicago. In 1936, still alive to the main chance, Louis Johnson organized the Veterans' Division of the Democratic National Committee, got his reward within the twelvemonth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Arms Before Men | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

Solicitor Mitchell said he had offered the Count $250,000 as a gesture-a "settlement for life." When the Count said $250,000 was "laughable and an insult," Solicitor Mitchell countered: "I wish somebody would insult me." Threatening to give the already much-publicized Countess Barbara "three years of hell with headlines," the Count was then represented by Solicitor Mitchell as having talked of suicide, murder, blackmail and kidnapping. This prompted Countess Barbara to have the Count arrested when he came to England. "If I blow my brains out everybody will know Barbara drove me to it," Solicitor Mitchell quoted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Insult | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...recent attacks and insults that were published upon the three Albanian Princesses on the good-will tour to this country were outrageous [TIME, Feb. 28]. The statement concerning Their Highnesses' visit to this country in search of rich husbands not only is untrue but it is an insult to the entire Royal Family of Albania and also to the Albanian nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 28, 1938 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...same thing would be written about the daughters of our American President while touring Albania, I am sure that the American Government would also consider it a pure insult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 28, 1938 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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