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...SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT [370 pp.) -Harold Lamb-Doubleday...
...wild weeks in the summer of 1529, it seemed to be the end of Europe. The Unspeakable Turk, Sultan Suleiman Khan, had smashed the Hungarian capital of Buda and thundered on, 170 incredible miles in one week, to the gates of Vienna. In an instant, Europe broke off its feuds. France and the Holy Roman Empire patched up a quick truce; even the Pope and Martin Luther buried the ecclesiastical mace for the time being. Twenty days later it was all over, and everybody felt a bit silly. The invader packed up his plunder and poled off down the Danube...
...career of Sultan Suleiman (rhymes with rule a don), last of the great Osmanli Turks, was just beginning. Harold Lamb's biographical narrative, Suleiman the Magnificent, tells the story of his reign with the skill that has made Lamb's retraces of history (from Genghis Khan to The March of Muscovy") among the most popular in print...
...time of the great raid on Austria, Suleiman had begun to suspect that the Turk had ridden as far as he could on the road of conquest, and that it was time to squat on the carpet of diplomacy and consolidate the great adventure into a great state. Accordingly, the Sultan struck alliances with France and Venice, reorganized the legal code, expanded the educational system, opened his borders to European immigration, and announced the pax Turcica...
...Take a Law." Actually, Aramco had had little choice in its deal. Ibn Saud, faced with heavy drains on his exchequer to keep up his luxurious standard of living and pay for public works, had been demanding more money for two years. Abdullah Suleiman had imported a U.S. tax expert, John Greaney, to help him get it. In November Ibn Saud, who passes his own laws, suddenly promulgated an income-tax decree which would take half of Aramco's profits now and possibly a bigger slice later...