Word: nationalized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Great Britain's warrior-statesmen in 1914-18-were wrecked in the subsequent peace treaties by European "divide-&-rule" policies. Men like Lawrence of Arabia believed, led the Arabs to believe, that with the defeat of Turkey and the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire one great homogeneous Arab nation of essentially the same race, same religion, same culture, would stretch from the southern borders of the Anatolian plateau to the fantastically shaped rocks of Aden...
Colonel Lawrence's promises were largely forgotten in post-War "realistic" diplomacy and the half-legendary hero-philosopher of the desert revolt retired to write, refused all honors and titles offered by "perfidious Albion," died in a motorcycle accident three years ago. Instead of one Arab nation, so far there have emerged from the old Ottoman confines five major states: Saudi Arabia, the Yemen, Trans-Jordan, Palestine, Iraq. Lebanon and Syria are soon to come to independent statehood. Of these, only Saudi Arabia, ruled by strong-willed King Ibn Saud, can really call its soul...
...over his Sanjak children. Two years ago, however, France agreed to relinquish her mandate in 1939, decided to split Syria into two parts (Syria and Lebanon), left the Sanjak to be governed from Damascus by Syrian "Arabs. For the Father of the Turks, the spectacle of a petty Arab nation, formerly a subject people, ruling over their oldtime Turkish masters was too much. He protested to France and the League. Twice he moved his troops to the border to "protect" his Sanjak children, once he held a military powwow on a border-bound train. Only his cautious prime minister, deaf...
Confronted by a dearth of new pictures (TIME, May 16), cinema producers last month took to reviving old ones. By this week, 52 old pictures, from Birth of a Nation (1915) to Stowaway (1936), had been exhumed from storerooms, placed on view in cinemansions throughout the U. S. Result of the process was a pair of discoveries which, to an industry proverbially hypnotized by precedent, seemed utterly astounding. One was that any good old picture will often outdraw any poor new one. The other was that at least one old picture was the best cinema bargain...
...worried over the drought that frizzled the British Isles this spring. It threatened to spoil the ancient St. Andrews golf course for Britain's No. 1 international sporting event of the year (see below). More distressing, it threatened to parch the turf at ancient Epsom Downs for the nation's No. 1 fiesta, the Derby. With loving care the grass of the irregular horseshoe course was watered every day for ten dry weeks. Then, on the eve of the race, a torrent fell...