Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parties: twelve brats line up eleven chairs and march past them as minstrels play a tune; the object is to sit quickly. In the last few weeks many members of the International Missionary Council, in all corners of the world, picked up their satchels and started going to Jerusalem. Their object was to meet in this ancient town and begin a fortnight's discussion of the problems of enlarging Christianity...
That every member should bring with him a warm overcoat, a steamer rug, an umbrella or preferably a raincoat, and rubbers; that while the days may be warm the nights will be chilly in Jerusalem, and that there are no heating facilities in the special dormitories...
That telegrams to members of the council should be addressed: Watchman, Jerusalem (name of member), (and then the message...
Said Sir Percy: "Advices from Jerusalem should be regarded with caution. . . . It is certain that a rupture with Great Britain would be extremely repugnant to Ibn Saud...
...Finally, when the "Holy War" had been fully exploited by Jew correspondents of Jerusalem and by sundry gentile newsgatherers in Irak, a statement forthcame from Ibn Saud. Through his representative at Cairo, Sheik Hafiz Wahba, the Sultan positively denied that he was making war upon the British Mandates, and stated that he was doing his best to quiet certain pugnacious bands of his tribesmen subjects who had been raiding along the frontier...