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...Westerners idolize your Colonel T. E. 'Lawrence of Arabia' " observed in Cairo last week the Sheik Mustapha El Maraghi, rector of the Egyptian capital's 1,000-year-old Moslem University. "You credit Lawrence entirely with the success of the revolt of the Arabs against the Turks. You Westerners do not know that not even a hundred Lawrences could have aroused the Arabs against their Caliph, the Turkish Sultan, had it not been for the almost unlimited amount of gold sovereigns Lawrence had at his disposal. There is very little, if anything, a Bedouin would...
...Pope Pius XI, Trotsky, the Emperor of Japan and Mahatma Gandhi are the stars of the author's side show, with Communism cast as the Wild Man from Borneo, and Fascism "the grinning skull at the victor's post-war banquet." Hitler. Roosevelt, Stalin, Mussolini and Mustapha Kemal are a shade less formidable, while the Freemasons, J. P. Morgan. Chiang Kaishek, Baron Rothschild, Sir Henri Deterding, Michailoff, head of the Macedonian terrorists, are exploited as men of mystery engaged in sinister doings. So far as its direct political interpretation is concerned, the dominant message communicated by Our Lords...
...home, however, the Greeks were losing part of Venizelos' plunder to a resuscitated Turkey under Mustapha Kemal Pasha. When Venizelos rushed home the Greek electorate, with one of the world's worst non sequiturs, repudiated Venizelos and called back King Constantine. Once again Venizelos turned his hand to revolution. Back as Prime Minister, he deposed Constantine's son George and resigned just before Greece turned Republic...
...gaining. The old split between the Balkan interests of the repopulated peninsula and the world-trading Mediterranean interests of the islands began to widen, complicated by the unreconciled Macedonians of the north. Finally, in 1928, Venizelos cashed in his popularity for one more Premiership, made alliances with Mussolini and Mustapha Kemal, reasserted the Mediterranean policy of a true island Greek...
...pound class: M. A. Keyser '33 defeated Mustapha (T), by a time advantage. Time...