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...Missing Billion. King Saud's largesse is the talk of the Eastern world. But because the son of the late great Ibn Saud has never deigned to publish a statement of his revenues and expenditures, nobody knows precisely what use he has made of the underground wealth that Allah bestowed on him. In The Middle East, Oil and the Great Powers, published last week in Manhattan (Praeger...
Disappearing Zoo. Facing a crowd of 50,000 in front of his palace, Mohammed V spoke: "Dear people, here we are as you have known us, at the service of our dear country. Praise Allah who in his mercy has put an end to our tribulations...
...Arab boy enough money to go out and buy himself a revolver. The boy in question is named Amar-cousin to Kipling's wily quiz kid, Kim. He makes a good deal of The Spider's House into a kind of child's garden of Allah...
Swinging their scimitars and invoking the name of Allah, the Saracens descended on the great monastery at Luxeuil in Burgundy (now France) one day in 732 A.D. in the flood tide of the great Moslem invasion of Europe. In the ensuing plunder, the monastery's library was scattered - including a Bible scriven some 30 years before, near the end of the Merovingian dynasty. A fragment of that Bible has now turned up at Yale University. Most exciting fact about the find : it is probably the oldest manuscript of Christian music in existence...
Bark Instead of Bite. In last week's campaign windup at a Communist strong hold near Djakarta, a pretty 24-year-old girl intensely pleaded the Masjumi line: "The Communists stabbed us in the back . . . The welfare of our people depends on Allah, not on Malenkov or Mao Tse-tung." A crowd of 2,000 barefooted workers and women listened impassively cheered lustily. But a larger crowd a mile away cheered, too, when a Communist speaker harangued against "Dutch imperialism," and accused the Masjumi of selling out Indonesia to the U.S. Similarly...