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They never did. Waiting in the wings was one of the most luridly confusing quarter-centuries in the history of man. Progress appeared, unexpectedly, in Turkey, where Mustapha Kemal led a westernizing crusade. In Italy, Benito Mussolini had marched on Rome but was not yet (quite) a dictator. The only man who called himself that was Gustav von Kahr, Dictator of Bavaria, against whom Erich Ludendorff and Adolf Hitler plotted. In the U.S., John L. Lewis,* who had risen from statistician to president in the United Mine Workers, was getting ready for a trip to Europe. In New York, Franklin...
Another Renaissance. A Burman justice named Chow Mien, leading a delegation notable for magenta skirts and orange Aunt Jemima turbans, took up Nehru's song of independence from the white man's rule. So did Mustapha Momen of the Arab League, whose delegates represented distant Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Saudi Arabia. Said he: "Liberty has dawned and the world is destined to witness another renaissance in Asia." The first voice which had raised a war cry of "Asia for the Asiatics" was missing. Japan was not represented because, said Nehru, "Japanese are not allowed to leave their country...
...produced by the investigation in a week of prospecting old diggings: ¶ Admiral Harold R. Stark, 1941 Chief of Naval Operations, admitted that he did not believe Pearl Harbor would be attacked-but insisted in his testimony that Kimmel had received ample warning. But "Betty" Stark refused to criticize "Mustapha" Kimmel, one of his "closest and finest friends." ¶ In a statement to the Roberts Commission, made public for the first time, Major General Walter C. Short blamed his command's failures on the War Department and the Navy, which he accused of giving him insufficient information...
Back in August 1943, Jerusalem's Arab mayor, Mustapha Bey Khalidi, died in office. Jewish Councillor Daniel Auster automatically became acting mayor, pending a permanent appointment. Jews, constituting two-thirds of the city's population and taxpayers, demanded that Auster be confirmed. Arabs demanded that another Arab succeed the late lamented mayor...
...Ramadan arriving in the indolent Middle East gave further excuse for the slow life: no serious work shall be under taken; even officials may go late to work; schools will close at 2 p.m. Those officials who do not observe Ramadan, in Premier Mustapha El Nahas Pasha's words, "shall be dealt with." The Premier made an example: he called off his important Pan-Arab talks (TIME...