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...Jewish-Arab situation in Palestine was destined to cause much angry protesting oratory in Cleveland this week. Last summer discontented Arabs rioted and massacred Jews in Jerusalem at the Wailing Wall, authentic, revered remnant of Solomon's Temple, and in outlying communities (TIME, Aug. 26 et seq ). An explanation of the Arab discontent appeared last week, by Hadji Aminal Husseini, Grand Mufti and President of the Supreme Moslem Council, chief religious and temporal leader of Palestine Arabs Jews buy land, leaving Arabs homeless. Abnormal Jewish immigration forces Arabs out of work. (Great Britain recently stopped such immigration.) Arabs have...
Dourest and glummest of all Scotch religious sects are the famed "Wee Frees" (Free Church of Scotlanders), bitter-end remnant of the larger and broader Free Church which united with Scotch Presbyterians in 1900. With 92 ministers to guide them, the "Wee Frees" dwell glumly in the mist of the wild highlands, bemoaning their sins, brooding on Hell. Last week the "Wee Frees' " Assembly Commission met awesomely at Edinburgh. Before the day was out various Commissioners had censured as "Sabbath-breakers" not only Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald but Their Royal Highnesses the Duke & Duchess of York...
...bright sun, swept through the Holy City, razed the Temple. Another scene was in 70 A. D. when the Roman Titus and his grizzled legionaries forced their way inch by inch to the heart of Jerusalem, burned the Second Temple. Slowly the Jewish officer walked by the wall, only remnant of the ancient Temple, reflecting on the sad history of his race...
...Rump," declares Mr. Dale, "doesn't mean 'a portion of the original whole.'" Turn to Funk and Wagnalls "Standard Dictionary": "rump ... 3) Figuratively, the last or poor end of anything; an inferior remnant, spec (R) the Rump Parliament...
Cheered by the news of an approaching settlement of Mexico's religious problem. General Goroztieta had summoned his followers to the Hacienda Ibarra, had advised them to disband. Later he heard mass and joined the irreconcilable remnant of his army...