Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subjects his nose to kisses, instead of receiving bows of homage, because his subjects are of a fanatically orthodox Moslem sect, the Wahabi, and hold that the pious should bow only to Allah. Last week the Sultan and his devout Sheiks were persistently reported to have launched a "Holy War." Menaced areas: the British Mandates of Palestine, Transjordania, Irak and the Sultanate of Koweit...
...antenna sprouts from one of the squat mud turrets of Ibn Saud's mud-walled Palace, at Riyadh, his Capital. Unfortunately, however, even such modern equipment could not enable the Sultan to know, last week, what the cables of the world press were flashing about his reputed "Holy War." Had he known, Ibn Saud might have smiled in grim derision at the following reports...
...Englishmen began to take serious heed when the Manchester Guardian cut loose from decorum and stated that it would be "no picnic" to whip Ibn Saud. Meanwhile the British Laborite Daily Herald cried in frank alarm: ". . . This country is on the verge of war not with a few scattered tribes but with a monarch who has proved his ability and military strength and whose easy defeat cannot be assumed...
...Finally, when the "Holy War" had been fully exploited by Jew correspondents of Jerusalem and by sundry gentile newsgatherers in Irak, a statement forthcame from Ibn Saud. Through his representative at Cairo, Sheik Hafiz Wahba, the Sultan positively denied that he was making war upon the British Mandates, and stated that he was doing his best to quiet certain pugnacious bands of his tribesmen subjects who had been raiding along the frontier...
...treason is General Theodore Pangalos, recently the efficient Dictator of ungrateful Greeks (1925-26). Today Pangalos seems a ruined man, his body wasted by imprisonment, his hair turned prematurely white (TIME, Feb. 27). Yet he rallied, last week, sufficiently to state crisply to correspondents his views on dictatorship and war, as follows...