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Istanbul's mosque-capped hills were ablaze with light for a three-day and three-night celebration last week. Chains of brightly colored bulbs stretched from minaret to minaret of the treasured Mosques of Ayasofia, Suleiman the Magnificent, Mohammed the Conqueror. Below, in the four-mile stretch of the Golden Horn the Turkish fleet lay at anchor, with ship searchlights playing nightly over the city...
Chief protagonist on the Arab side was Seyyid Hikmat Suleiman, Prime Minister of Iraq who issued a spate of violent pronouncements damning the partition. Arab chiefs promptly assumed that Prime Minister Suleiman's outburst was part of "a British job." They argued that if Britain really favored the partition, Iraq would not have dared poke her nose...
Read the Putsch Pasha's communique: "His Majesty the King Has requested me to discharge the present Government and form another Ministry under Hikmat Bey Suleiman [a creature of the Pasha's] . . . our Movement has no object except realization of the happiness of the people . . . our mission is the will of the King...
...most interesting works already published are the "Harvard Historical Studies." These essays comprise twenty volumes by different authors and vary in subject matter from "The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America" and "The Government of the Ottoman Empire in the Line of Suleiman the Magnificent" to "Nominations for Elective Office in the United States" and "Burgage Tenure in England...
Every empire has its cycle of existence, passing from small beginnings to the zenith of power, and ending in decay and extinction. The power of Islam forms no exception to this rule. Its period of splendor was under Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, and since that time disintegration has made rapid progress...