Word: meccas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...significance of Pippa's. "All's right with the world," it was only necessary to go to the Aroboretum on a warm spring day. Like the Glass Flowers, the Arnold Arboretum is something that students are more familiar with by name than by experience. Outsiders make it a Mecca to be numbered with the Paul Revere House and the Museum of Fine Arts; but the student who has spent four years here without ever seeing it is only one of many; and the one who does not even know its whereabouts and wherefores, is by no means a rarity...
...dominating force in India, published a few days ago a memorandum of the Indian Government which explained the demands made by the Kaliphat, or Moslem movement; including the restoration to the Turk of Constantinople, Thrace, and Smyrna, and the submission of the holy places of Islam--Jerusalem and Mecca--to the authority of the Sultan. The publication of such demands just before the Near East Conference to discuss Turkey's position was regarded all over England as a grave diplomatic blunder; and the demands themselves were looked on as an attempt to coerce the British government by a minority...
Thus England stands between two fires. To refuse to heed the Mohammedan demands means revolt in India and perhaps in Egypt as well. Yet to comply with them would cause the breaking of promises made to Jews and Arabs as to Jerusalem and Mecca, and the return of the Sultan to Constantinople. It would further entail recognition of the power of the Moslem in a British dominion, as well as the relinquishing of India to confusion. For the Hindus are not yet ready for complete self-rule, despite the great extension of powers granted them through an Indianized civil service...