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...Angora Assembly separating the office of Caliph (successor to the prophet) from that of Sultan (sovereign). He further declared himself still to be both Sultan and Caliph, and asserted that in fleeing from Constantinople he was following a precedent set by the Prophet, who fled from his enemies in Mecca to his friends in Medina...
...Eugen Steinach, Viennese gland surgeon, in an interview with a foreign correspondent of The New York Evening Post, deplores the exaggerations of popular gossip, and disclaims the implication that his operation will necessarily " create a robust flapper of any wrinkled, decripit old lady." Notwithstanding, his clinic has become a Mecca for people from all parts of the world who feel the weight of years...
Just as the goal of every Moslem's heart is Mecca, so the goal of every senator's heart seems to be the continent of Europe. The latter goal is widespread, but all the more room for observation and criticism--a vast area for picking up moral gems in favor of isolation. At the present time, Senator Hirarn Johnson is on his pilgrimage through this tempestuous land of strains and stressed and is last approaching the Ruhr, determined to seek out the rights and wrongs of matters there...
Having spoken in the citadel of the coal barons, in the mining Mecca where no union man can show his face without danger of physical violence, and having spoken on the most forbidden of all subjects-coal and the rights of unionism-the Citizens Committee and the Civil Liberties...
...each other off the map, they may merge eventually into one strong state. If Irak remains in sane hands. Bagdad may again become the centre of a culture that rivalled Alexandria in the height of its glory. If the Bedjas maintains an enlightened policy towards the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina, the door is left open for the expansion of Mohammedanism. At any rate the chance is here for an Arabian Renaissance, and the Arabs are being given a free hand to make the most...