Word: moslems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Albania (about the size of New Jersey plus Maryland) has been governed since 1920 by a Council of Regents (consisting of four representatives-all of whom have now fled to Italy-of the four popular religions: Bektashi Moslem, Sunni Moslem, Roman-Catholic, Greek Orthodox) and by a Diet of 99 members...
Having been ordered to remove all religious emblems from their buildings by the Moslem authorities, the directors of French and Italian schools removed everything but the cross, which, in the circumstances, was the one bit of advertising likely to give offense; for this, they were immediately closed, and protest was made by their respective governments. The National Assembly was undoubtedly quite within its rights in refusing to allow foreign schools of a different faith to make converts of its citizens; but with such summary action, it is almost inevitable that the gain in internal religious morale will be more than...
...bearded, turbaned Moslem ecclesiastic arose with dignity and intense conviction. "When that moment comes," he cried, "the men will become women...
...that historic achievement of Morris Gest's early career when, as publicity agent for Oscar Hammerstein, he proudly brought back from Europe a "stolid Berliner and his wife, sister and daughter, whom Gest bedecked in Moslem costumes, instructed to pray ostentatiously to the East every day on the boat coming over, and covered with fleeting fame by having them rejected at a Broadway hotel where they had tried to register as Abdul Kaffir and wives...
...Great Britain the Government of Ramsay MacDonald is officially standing aloof from the question. British Moslem possessions are so diversified as to share all dissensions in Moslem theology. However, it is generally felt that the quick action of setting up King Hussein Ibn Ali . of the Hedjaz as the first claimant to the Califate will have only one beneficiary, the British Empire...