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These wild-eyed tribesmen scattered in mud huts through three countries-Turkey, Iran, Iraq-have had battle lust for 3,000 years, have never knuckled under to non-Kurdish governments. From Istanbul last week came news of probably the biggest riot of Turkey's Kurds since the War. Operating from Dersim about 200 miles south of the Black Sea, 300 miles west of the Turkish-Iran border, Kurdish tribesmen with an army of 5,000 demanded that Dictator Mustafa Kamâl Atatürk should establish no military garrisons in Kurdish territory, that Kurds should be allowed...
...Pearson, a onetime Chicago insurance-man, took his wife and camera to Central Africa, trekked 11,000 miles through the jungle. A plotless safari, the Pearson film record lavishes hazy shots of cheetahs, lions, tigers, giraffes, antelopes, elephants, hippopotamuses, assorted naked savages, waving grass. Goriest scenes are young Masai tribesmen sucking up the blood of a dead bullock, black coolies scooping out elephant feet to make wastebaskets for the U.S. market. Cinematic Afrophiles will relish the rare, sleek okapi, a herd of sunbathing hippos, the giant Latukas whose hunters tower seven feet tall, and the mystic snake dance...
Over the jagged rim of the Atlas Mountains, which cut diagonally across the bulge of northwestern Africa, live the Tuaregs, fiercest of North African tribesmen. Known as the Blue Men, the Tuaregs swath their bodies in robes of cheap indigo-dyed cotton that dyes their skins a permanent blue color...
Over the mountains there is no room for 1,000,000 tribesmen. French settlers and more sedentary tribes have long preempted all the available cork forests, vineyards, barley fields. Suddenly alive to its danger, the Government last week sent Administrator Steeg and his party to the scene of the hunger march, and voted $2,250,000 relief money to match $450,000 which the Banque d'Etat de Maroc has already put up to buy food for the starving tribes. Distribution of free barley and mutton has already started...
...this situation colonial officers on the spot gave heartiest thanks for Spain's General Franco. Tempting offers of full canteens and salaries to fight for Fascist Spain have won hundreds of hungry tribesmen over the frontier, and French frontier officials have almost broken their necks turning their heads the other...