Word: ottoman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bundy blasted Hinshaw's argument that totalitarian governments soon fall under their own weight by citing the fact that the Ottoman Empire lasted 1,000 years, and the Roman Empire 400 years. Bundy said that the leaders of Hinshaw's organized moral resistance program would be exterminated immediately after Russian occupation...
...possible to tell them apart. But the old Waltari charm is not there. The hero is a Finnish boy named Michael who sails aboard a pilgrim ship for Palestine, only to be lugged off to the African slave markets by Moslem pirates. Thenceforward, he ricochets about the Ottoman Empire-from the fall of Algiers to the siege of Vienna to the campaigns in Persia-like some 16th Century Lanny Budd with a bath towel wound around his head. The reader is carried along with Michael's story by a trick of suspense that is original, if nothing else: When...
More Than Wet Feet. Headlines and bloodshed gave an air of newness to crises that had actually been evolving for years. The waves had been moving forward since the collapse of Turkey's Ottoman empire and, more energetically, since the end of World War II. The West was belatedly learning that it was in for more than a case of wet feet...
IRAQ (pop. 4,799,000): slice of Ottoman Empire mandated to the British after World War I, served up to Hashemite King Feisal I (Abdullah's younger brother) in 1921; independent since 1932; a constitutional monarchy. Head of state: KING FEISAL II, 16. Premier: NURI AL SAID, 63. Militant member of the Arab League. Army: three divisions, outdated British equipment. British work oil concessions with Americans, French and Dutch-so far without trouble...
SYRIA (pop. 3,227,000): another slice of Ottoman Turkey mandated to France after World War I; republic, completely independent since 1946. Head of state: President HASHIM BEY ATASSI, 85. Real boss: Colonel ADIB SHISHAKLI who seized power in a coup late in 1949. Army: 25,000, one armored brigade, French equipment, weak staff. Militant member of the Arab League...