Word: irakli
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James Ramsay MacDonald may not know his Byron but he knows his Bible. To this God-fearing Scot the present obstreperous Assyrian minority in the Kingdom of Irak are precious remnants of early Christian tribes. Hundreds of them were being butchered last week by the Irak soldiers and Kurdish mercenaries of lean, falcon-eyed King Feisal...
These tidings so distressed Prime Minister MacDonald in Scotland last week that he broke off his vacation at Lossie-mouth and flew 540 mi. to London, alighting at dawn to hurry to the Foreign Office. After all it was the MacDonald Government which withdrew the British mandate over Irak last year (TIME, Oct. 17), entertained King Feisal in London during the past June season. When King Feisal was in London fullest royal honors were paid to the "new nationhood" of Irak by Christian King George V who feted his royal Mohammedan guest at Buckingham Palace. With Assyrians being massacred last...
Bagdad newspapers accused the Assyrians of coming down like wolves on Irak troops and starting all the trouble. Their story was that an Assyrian rebel chief named Yaku has been weaving back & forth across the frontier between Irak and French Syria where he is suspected of obtaining arms. Not long ago Yaku, after treating with agents of the Irak Government, agreed to return and give up his arms. Instead he swooped with wolflike treachery upon a small Irak force sent to accept his surrender, killed 20 Iraki, wounded 45. Worse than treachery, according to the Mohammedan point of view...
...Teleki was in charge of the vast Scout Camp which had its own police, hospital, specially constructed water and lighting systems and a Jamboree newspaper published in five languages. Scottish Scouts stepped out in kilts, French came in green jumpers, blue shorts and berets. Swart Egyptian Scouts wore fezzes, Irak turned out in sun helmets, Siam sent scouts in black hats displaying a tiger's head. But all proper Scouts in the Jamboree used the distinctive salute* of Lord Baden-Powell's "Boy Scouts of the World." Improper and ill at ease were 800 members of the Mussolini...
...carpet was down at Victoria Station last week, and in full uniform King George. Edward of Wales, the Duke of Gloucester and most of the Cabinet in levee dress stood on it waiting for a train. The train pulled in, and out stepped white-chinned King Feisal of Irak, who had been escorted across the Channel by four British destroyers, met at Dover by the Duke of York. Reporters admired his gleaming white tunic and his golden spurs. Guns banged a royal salute, and Kings, Cabinet Ministers and assorted princes rode down Buckingham Palace Road with a clattering cavalry escort...