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Captain Poter Cochrane, D.S.C., of the Cameron Highlanders, Raden Kadir, a student from the Netherlands East Indies, Miss Yung Wang, who recently escaped from Hong Kong, Nikolai Krasavchenko, leader of the Moscow Youth Organization, and Vladmir Pchelintsev, Russian sniper, will make up the visiting party...
Damascus was too Oriental for gayety, but not for long. Isabel instituted polyglot Wednesday receptions-"there were thirty-six races and creeds and tongues." Dressed as a Moslem woman, she frequented the bazaars and harems. Their great friends were Abd-el-Kadir, an almost legendary chieftain who had held out for 15 years against the French, and Jane Digby El Mezrab, the Mabel Dodge Luhan of her time. The four of them used to have ritual evening meals on the roof, "and after that we would smoke our narghilehs and talk and talk and talk far into the night...
President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey: "I continued last week to exterminate my enemies. Abdul Kadir Bey, one time Governor of Angora, was hanged during the week for participating in a plot to assassinate me which I am thought to have trumped up. To date, 18 of my political enemies have been disposed of by hanging through this strategem (TIME, Sept...
...Maharaja of Indore who, as everyone knows, was deserted by one of his dancing girls (Mumtaz Begum) last year and considered his princely honor so tarnished thereby that he reputedly despatched his Adjutant General and other trusted officials to abduct her from Abdul Kadir Bawla, rich merchant of Bombay, with whom she had taken refuge (TlME...
...your description of the supposed death of Prince Abdul Kadir, Page 13, under "Turkey," you aver that "too much water in the lungs was the cause of his demise...