Word: pan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offer of the throne was made on condition that Ali conform to the wishes of the people of Hejaz. His father's throne was accepted by Ali on this condition; but the throne of the Califate was left vacant until the election of a Calif by the Pan-Islamic Committee. at Cairo, unless Ibn Saud should capture Mecca and elect himself Calif...
...over Islam and died down. Husein became stronger and stronger each day. He was indeed the "Arab of Arabs," the Supreme Prince of the Moslem faith. But, under the surface, Islam was being moved by mighty forces. Who could say whence they would come, whither they would go? A Pan-Islamic Conference was planned to discuss and settle the question of the succession. It was clear that Husein's title was meaningless to the mass of Moslems...
...Atlanta, Ga., assembled representatives of the Latin American Republics, together with those of 19 states of the U. S. The occasion was a Pan-American Commercial Congress., All the many speeches advocated closer commercial cooperation between American countries...
Following the failure of the Pan-American Conference at Santiago, Chile (TIME, Mar. 10, 1923) to settle upon a plan of naval disarmament, South American republics began to arm, concentrating upon their navies...
...There followed a brief spat over the U. S. policy of collecting Latin-American debts. Banker Albert Strauss, of Manhattan, opposed Dr. Leo S. Rowe, Pan-Americanist, cited the Monroe Doctrine as the business man's friend...