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Only two sons of Abraham, traveling, idol-smashing Hebrew, became famed? Ishmael and Isaac. Isaac, son of Sarah, Abraham's half-sister by another mother, was the younger. He became the ancestor of the Israelites (of whom the Jews are the professedly sole remnants). Ishmael, born of Hagar, Sarah's Egyptian servant, was the elder. After Sarah's jealousy nagged Abraham into driving Hagar and her Ishmael into the wilderness, Ishmael became an archer, married an Egyptian girl, begot twelve sons who became ancestors of the Nomad tribes around Palestine from whom the Arabians are descended...
...Isaac is to the Jews, so Ishmael is to the Mohammedans, whose culture is mainly Arabian. Many of Isaac's traditions Moslems apply to Ishmael, including Abraham's miraculously finding a ram to sacrifice instead of Isaac...
Plantagenet itself is not so great a name in Britain now as Isaacs. When Rufus Daniel Isaacs retired, upon receiving his present rank of Marquess of Reading (TIME, May 3, 1926), he had been Viceroy of India and Lord Chief Justice of England. He ranks today as the foremost Liberal "elder statesman." And last week the Empire was again made acutely Isaacs-conscious. In Melbourne, Australia, that vigorous, strong-faced old jurist, Sir Isaac Isaacs, is Chief Justice of the Dominion. He it was to whom Laborite Prime Minister James Henry Scullin turned last week, seeking a new governor general...
Because Australian Laborites definitely routed Australian Nationalists at the last election (TIME, Oct. 21), Mr. Scullin now feels strongly enough, as "his majesty's prime minister in Australia," to advise George V to appoint Sir Isaac Isaacs the new governor general. If given, His Majesty must take the advice. It was a question last week only of whether Sir Isaac Isaacs would consent to accept appointment. With deliberation becoming to a Chief Justice he pondered all week, kept Mr. Scullin, Dominion, King and Empire waiting...
...Australia gets a "native" governor general, Canada is almost sure to want one, and if things go on thus what is the Empire coming to?-such was a part of the to-be-or-not-to-be? pondered by Sir Isaac Isaacs...