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...soccer player named Larbi Ben Barek. He belongs to the soccer union and thus gets $20 a week and a $16 bonus for each game the team wins. His father was a shipyard worker in Casablanca, and he learned to play soccer bare foot on a Moroccan desert. A Mohammedan, he frequently bows his head to ward Mecca after scoring a goal...
...Explained O'Casey the other day, talking in his Devonshire home: "After all, I've been a Communist for 25 years, which is half a lifetime." But, he added: "I am almost a supporter of all parties, whether Tory or Liberal, Socialist or Catholic, Mohammedan, Buddhist or Labor. All my life I've been in the struggle to see things improved, which is what everyone else is trying to do too, isn't it?" His latest play, Red Roses for Me, produced in suburban London in February, is about the Dublin transport strike of 1913. Said...
...practical Hollanders exploited the archipelago as one vast plantation, funneling its pepper, coffee, rubber, tin, oil and cinchona bark into world trade instead of their own, less voracious home market. They neither westernized nor Christianized the old (mainly Mohammedan) cultures. They did not get around to abolishing slavery until just before the U.S. did, gave the Indonesians no voice in government until this century...
...except Batavia, where the natives called a work stoppage, and Bandung, was under white control. The native leader, Soekarno, admitted that he got his arms from the Japs, with whom he collaborated during the war, but pointed to his prewar anti-Jap utterances as proof of good faith. A Mohammedan, he called on the Mohammedan majority in Java for a holy war against "Dutch infidels...
From Saudi Arabia came the only royalty. Prince Faisal, son of King Ibn Saud, wore a snow-white burnoose and golden head cord, maintained Mohammedan sobriety, but was not above spending an evening with his delegation at the circus in New York...