Word: mufti
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...Saudi Arabs in crisp brown silk robes and white headdresses, Yemen Arabs in turbans and black-and-green cloaks, Egyptians in scarlet fezzes, Jews in business suits, British diplomats in morning coats and silk toppers. On the eve of the "Conference" they split into three camps (Jews, "Defense" Arabs, "Mufti" Arabs), shut themselves into separate chambers and let the British diplomats shuttle...
Particularly distressing was the Arab split. Both parties were agreed that Palestine should be independent. But the faction under the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem has long tried to achieve that end by terrorism, while the Defense Arabs, under two leaders, Fakhri Bey Nashashibi and his uncle Ragheb, wanted negotiation. The Mufti Arabs refused to negotiate with the Defense Arabs, whom they would shoot on sight in Palestine. By diligent shuttling Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald finally got them together...
Localized Warfare. In six hours of super-swift Czechoslovak mobilization, Premier-General Syrovy rushed 1,200,000 reserves into uniform. "They streamed into public buildings and discarded Mufti," cabled United Press's Eleanor Packard. "They picked out Sam Browne belts and cartridges. They seemed to find preparations for war great...
Meanwhile, Sudetens who had fled to Germany and organized a Freikorps ("Free Corps") appeared in Mufti, wearing Freikorps armbands and supplied with light German weapons of every sort, including hand grenades and machine guns, to wage localized warfare upon Czechoslovak towns and customs houses all along the Sudeten frontier. At As, the birthplace of No. 1 Sudeten Nazi Konrad Henlein, Czech gendarmes who fortnight ago described themselves as "Sons of Death'' were driven out with heavy casualties. The town of As is the fingernail of a tiny finger of Czechoslovakia extending 18 miles into Germany, and Sudetens...
...Mexico's military districts. These satraps had been summoned by General Lazaro Cardenas, expropriating President of Mexico, to back him visibly with their presence when he opened the Mexican Congress last week. As is their jealously guarded privilege, the Congressmen each wore a pistol. General Cardenas was in mufti, for he is the "New Deal" hero of underprivileged Mexicans. All Mexico was tense with anticipation, for New Dealer Cardenas had announced that he would read "the most important message to Congress delivered since my inauguration...