Word: musa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FORTY DAYS OF MUSA DAGH-Franz Werfel-Viking...
...ordinary U. S. reader, "Armenian" suggests Levantine rug-dealers, massacres, Michael Arlen. But last week Author Franz Werfel gave the word a new and heroic significance. In The Forty Days of Musa Dagh he recited an Armenian epic founded on an actual incident of the World War. Humanizing one more bloody no-man's-land, this 817-page novel immediately takes its place, with All Quiet on the Western Front and The Case of Sergeant Grischa, as one of the War's big books...
...Palestine, which both Jews and Arabs call their "National Home," the two peoples make themselves articulate through the Jewish National Council and the Palestine Arab Executive, respectively. Neither the Council nor the Executive have any legal status but both have much prestige. Early last week President Musa Kazem Pasha el Husseini of the Arab Executive warned Sir Arthur Wauchope that Arab young bloods intended to demonstrate at Jaffa, the port of Jerusalem, "against excessive Jewish immigration...
...approach of Easter there are thousands gathering in Jerusalem representing three of the great religions of the world. The Jews are there to celebrate the Passover and the Christians to celebrate their holiday, while the Moslems from the desert will go to Jerusalem for the pilgrimage of Nebi Musa. As a result of this coincidence of the religious festivals the British have been forced to take extraordinary police and military measures to insure the keeping of the peace...