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...awesome performance?last for ten years. "Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford," reported the Associated Press, "did not conceal their deep emotion." But the Machine beckoned. Leaving the world's thriftiest? village behind, Mohammed went directly to Cologne. There, surrounded by German businessmen to whom his words are as the Koran, Mr. Ford peeled off his coat, vigorously laid the cornerstone of his first manufacturing factory on the European continent.? The historic moment was exactly high noon. Tapping thrice upon the stone, Henry Ford said...
Pious Afghans rejoiced last week as their new king, Nadir, "the Afghan George Washington" (TIME, Oct. 21). re-established prohibition in harmony with the holy commandment of the Koran: God declareth unto you his signs, that ye may give thanks. 0 true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images, and diving arrows, are an abomination of the work of Satan; therefore avoid them, that you may prosper...
Smaller than the New Testament is the Koran, holiest of books to the 209,000,000 Mohammedans who live in Asia, Africa, Europe, and to the 20,000 who live in the U. S. and Canada. Here Allah speaks in the first person from the breathless vastness where He reigns. Here are tales of Noah, Moses, Joseph, of the great Horned Alexander; here is denounced the idolatry of those who worship Christ as the Son of God. The Koran was dictated by, or remembered from the sayings of, the great Prophet to whom Angel Gabriel brought messages. In heaven...
Last week the entire faculty of the Stamboul Divinity School was summoned to conference with President Kemal. Secret though the meetings were, two important Kemal-changes loomed. One prospect was a renewal of the order to Latinize the Koran. The other, even more radical, was a slight Christianizing of Mohammedan ritual. Correspondents reported that this would include the wearing of shoes and slippers in the mosques instead of leaving them at the door as good Mohammedans have done since the prophet's day. Moreover, instead of kneeling on prayer rugs, the Kemalized Mohammedans may be seated in pews...
Cables flashed. Mr. William Randolph Hearst called personally on President Calvin Coolidge. The President was understood to have opined that Mr. Koran's case came solely within the jurisdiction of the French courts. To reporters gathered on the White House lawn Publisher Hearst said: "The French authorities are behaving like spoiled children. . . . Why should they make this ridiculous fuss about the publication of their secret agreement with Great Britain, unless there is something in it that they are ashamed...