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Enter Ahmed. Ismahan's days, like Amal's days, were gaudy with melodrama. In 1941 she remarried Cousin Emir Hassan. Her motive was patriotism, not love. She brought him and his fierce Druse tribesmen into the Allied camp, inspired him to help the British take Syria from the Vichy French. Then she got another divorce and another husband, temperamental Ahmed Salem, Egypt's foremost cinema producer...
...bought with cattle, where a wife labors as a beast of burden while her lord & master drinks Kaffir beer, hunts and squats on his haunches. Mrs. Ballinger had overcome the prejudice. More than that, as their Parliamentary spokesman, she was in a position to weld South Africa's tribesmen, now divided, into a single whole. For the Union, such a move could have far-reaching consequences...
...fear from the Japanese." Indian Traitor Subhas Chandra Bose, leading "several divisions" of traitorous Indian troops across the border, was said to have helped "annihilate . . . several British divisions." But even without believing these preposterous claims, Indians could well be impressed by the fact that except for raids by Afghan tribesmen India had actually been invaded for the first time since the Raj took over...
Others go by pouch on the backs of Naga tribesmen to U.S. soldiers at listening posts close to the Jap lines-posts set up to give a few minutes' warning when Jap bombers start coming over...
...Irene Manning). This triangle is menaced by El Khobar, masked leader of the intransigent Riffs. But the pianist (who once fought for Loyalist Spain) turns out to have quite a way with the natives. El Khobar is not so black-hearted as black-faced and vocal. He and his tribesmen sing practically everything except Been Wukkin' on de Railroad. In the long run El Khobar is exonerated, the pianist gets the girl. The one bit which heartily commends The Desert Song to a world at war is a sizzling dancer (see cut, p. 94), by name Sylvia Operte...