Word: moslem
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...months as a delegate to the United Na tions session in Paris. She had flown through the Middle East with rubberneck stops at Beirut, Damascus, Amman, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. She had prefaced her tour of India with a fast week of seeing slums and soldiery, of meeting voluble Moslem dignitaries and veiled Moslem women in the Pakistan cities of Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar. Her tour has not been without moments of conflict. Her visit to Pakistan aggravated a female feud between Begum Lia-quat AH Khan, widow of Pakistan's late Prime Minister, and Miss Fatima Jinnah, sister...
...Stirring Peoples. The leaders of Istiglal, the independence movement, are on the whole moderate men who prefer pressure to violence. Yet the ferment of Moslem nationalism is reaching west toward Morocco. Last autumn there were election riots. Last week the Sultan, Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef, who was once mistakenly thought to be a safe man for France, dispatched a letter to President Vincent Auriol demanding more local rule...
What's Unfair? To any free newsmen, the meaning of such provisions was clear: any unfavorable story by a correspondent, no matter how factual, could be construed as "propaganda" or injurious "to national prestige." Pakistan, for example, wanted to extend everywhere the Moslem rule that forbids images of Mohamed; the Egyptians wanted the press to follow Egypt's own censorship rules and thus, for instance, ban any news of King Farouk's high jinks; Latin American delegates plugged for amendments that made "unfair" reporting (i.e., unfavorable) of their affairs a crime. Behind these gripes stood the Communists...
Cavendish Cannon, 57, career man (32 years) and able troubleshooter, served as political adviser at the Moscow and Potsdam conferences during World War II, Ambassador to Belgrade (1947-49) during Tito's break with Moscow, then minister in Syria where he tried to ease Moslem resentment over U.S. recognition of Israel: to become Ambassador to Portugal replacing Lincoln MacVeagh, confirmed this week as Ambassador to Spain...
...sage old Moslem spiritual leader became the world's newest king, Idris...