Word: sultanate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Foreign Legion nabs an important chieftain in the perpetual Berber rebellion in French Morocco, another springs up to take his place. Two of the greatest of these blue-cowled die-hards were the Brothers El Hiba and Merebbi Rebbo Mehammedan of the south, sometimes called "The Blue Sultan,"* sometimes "The Saint." Nabbed in 1917 by the French, El Hiba passed his baton on to Brother Merebbi. For 16 years Merebbi's home has been the wide Moroccan Desert and the passes of the Atlas Mountains. By day he has worn dust on his tongue, sand in his eyes...
...Sarawak in Borneo and was knighted by Queen Victoria there is nothing shameful in the story of Little Boy Brooke except court evidence which convinced almost every one except his British judges that he had practiced ruthless extortion on the natives of Sarawak after obtaining it from the Sultan of Borneo by violence, trickery and threats. Even today the discreet British Statesman's Year Book is obliged to list opium, gambling and arrack (strong spirits) as leading sources of revenue of the House of Brooke in Sarawak. The present Rajah, hard, suave, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke (grandnephew of Little...
...Highness the Aga Khan, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah: raised to His Majesty's Privy Council. This honor to a useful Moslem was nicely balanced by conferring the same on Hindu Lawyer Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru...
...tenth birthday of the Turkish Republic had dawned and Turks had much to rejoice over. Amid world depression they are prospering. Their budget balances. Private deposits in Turkish banks have octupled since the Young Turks ousted the last Sultan, flabby, sponge-brained Mohammed VI. This year Turkey is on the second lap of a Three-Year Plan of economic development supervised by U. S. experts. To her tenth birthday party last week came the second most notable man in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, dashing Red War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov who is definitely more popular though less potent...
...Years ago General Mustafa the Excellent and his Young Turks had al ready beaten the Allies at the Dardanelles, ousted the Sultan and beaten the Greeks (whom David Lloyd George set against them) before they proceeded to found the Turkish Republic...