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Married. Aga Sultan, Sir Mohammed Shah, Aga Khan III, 52, "direct descendant of Mohammed," leader of 12,000,000 Shiite Mohammedans; and Mlle. Andre Josephine Marie Leonie Carron. 31, Parisian modiste; at Aix-Les-Bains by Playwright Henri Clerc, Mayor of Aix. Though the Aga Khan is so holy that spoonfuls of his bathwater are peddled among the faithful, he owns one of the finest racing stables in Europe, plays roulette, shoots craps. In delicate compliment to her husband, Mlle. Carron wore a wedding gown of her husband's racing colors (emerald & chocolate) banded with weasel...
More trivial things than torn theatre posters have caused serious riots in Tangier. Diagonally across the strait from British-owned Gibraltar, Tangier is nominally under the rule of boyish Sidi Mohammed, Sultan of Morocco. Actually it is ruled by an unwieldy international board composed of a French administrator with Spanish, British and Italian assistants. International feeling is high; Administrator Paul Alberge sent detectives to watch the alley between the French and Spanish cinemas...
...Syria, Transjordania, Irak and Arabia (see map). They shouted "Palestine for the Arabs!," jabbered of Holy War and of the booty to be got by plundering expeditions into Palestine. Syria is a protectorate of France but her civilized soldiers have never been able to quell the wild, rebellious Sultan El Atrash who lives in a mud palace high in the remote mountains and sallies forth on sporadic raids at the head of his hard-riding, fanatical Druse tribesmen. Last week the dread Atrash was reputed to be rampaging toward Palestine with 800 of his own horsemen and 2,000 Bedouins...
Utterly different from bold Sultan El Atrash is the mild spoken little Amir Abdullah of Transjordania, a contented British puppet whose chief delight is in breeding priceless Arab steeds. Last week the Amir dutifully hastened across the River Jordan by means of Allenby Bridge, successfully dissuaded some 300 of his subjects who had set out minded to wage plunder in Palestine...
London editors thought last week that Arabia was the only really likely kindling place for a Holy War. There tall, sagacious, tortoise-spectacled Ibn Saud is Sultan, and King of the Hejaz to boot. He alone has sufficient prestige to galvanize and weld Moslem tribesmen of the Near East into mass enthusiasm for an Islamic pogrom. Last week despatches from Damascus (French Syria) told that 20,000 Arabs had paraded through the bazars shouting: "Long live the unity of Arab peoples under the Sultanship of Ibn Saud...