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...Turks after the Hittite regime that ruled there over 3,000 years ago-"must be Turkish-ruled." In Syria's capital, Damascus, Arab leaders called for a policy of noncooperation with France. Throughout much of the Arab world - from Asia Minor to Aden, from Tigris to Nile - there was dismay over this latest of a long list of betrayals by the Big Powers. For Turkey, former master of the Arabs, was clearly about to gain, with the tacit consent of the French, a valuable economic key to Arab nations...
...work of modern sculptors who feel that if they could surpass its life-loaded repose they would touch the summit of their art. Appreciation of such forms is not purely abstract. Through the imaginations of writers as diverse as Emil Ludwig and Thomas Mann, the civilized life of the Nile has begun to intrigue common thought as Classic Greece intrigued it for centuries. In Never to Die, a neat, lucid book on Egyptian art and Egyptian writings, a little more dust is shined off the dynasties...
...greater than thou, take what he may offer thee as it is set before thee. Fix thy gaze at what is before thee, and pierce not thy host with many glances, for it is an abomination to force thy notice upon him. . . ." From a hymn to the Nile: "Praise to thee, O Nile, that issuest forth from the earth and comest to nourish the dwellers in Egypt. Secret of movement, a darkness in the daytime. . . . When he arises earth rejoices and all men are glad; every jaw laughs and every tooth is uncovered." From a poet 20 centuries before Christ...
...this whole matter is covered by simply reaffirming the Italo-British Gentlemen's Agreement of Jan. 2, 1937. 4) Unexpectedly Italy mentioned Ethiopia's famed Lake Tana by name, affirmed that she will respect British interest in having this great lake remain the source of the Blue Nile, which waters the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. This was to set at rest popular British fears of several years' duration that the Italians might by gigantic blasting and hydraulic operations cause the overflow of Lake Tana to water Ethiopian lands instead of Egyptian...
...period of peace which is going to succeed a long period of obstruction and difficulties of all kinds." But Count Baillet-Latour's optimistic visions turned out to be an Egyptian mirage. No sooner had the committeemen taken a peaceful look at the pyramids and toured the Nile than they sat down aboard the steamer Victoria and started squabbling...