Word: iraqization
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...proudly on a thickly dotted map showing the number of students from foreign lands who have studied under his guidance. Last week white-haired Dr. Monroe, who looks like the late Warren Gamaliel Harding in spectacles, was triply honored. From Baghdad came an invitation to be president of the Iraq Educational Survey. From Persia came a decoration-the Order of Science Achievement, 1st Class-for his services to international learning. And in Denver 4,000 delegates of the World Federation of Education Associations elected him their president. Dr. Monroe, 62, delayed his reply to Denver but accepted the invitation from...
...Hoover order: a U. S. diplomat or consul who serves one year in any of 79 "pest holes'' gets credit for 18 months toward his retirement. World travelers were not surprised to find on the list such notoriously uncomfortable communities as Aden, Arabia; Canton, China; Baghdad, Iraq; Dakar, Senegal; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Leopoldville, Belgian Congo; Monrovia, Liberia and a host of Central American cities. What they found hard to understand, though, was the stamp of unhealthiness the Government had placed on such metropolitan centres as Hongkong, Nanking and Shanghai, on Havana and Saigon, on Bombay and Madras...
Died. Hussein ibn Ali, 76, onetime King of Hedjaz and Grand Sheriff† of Mecca, father of King Feisal of Iraq; father of Emir Abdullah of Transjordania; father of King Ali who succeeded him for a short time when he was forced to abdicate in 1924; in Amman, near Jerusalem Aided by Col. Thomas Edward Lawrence, he revolted against the Turks in 1916 dreamed of establishing a Pan-Arabian Empire which, says Col. Lawrence, the Allied Powers promised him in a treaty in 1915. But Arabia was parcelled out and he became King only of the Hedjaz, was dethroned...
Died. Hussain, 76, onetime King of the Hejaz, father of King Faisal of Iraq and King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan; on the Island of Cyprus. In 1917, aided by Thomas Edward Lawrence, he revolted against Turkey, made himself King; in 1924 he was deposed by Iba Saud, driven into exile...
...22?Hearing of the twelve-million-pound claim v. Great Britain of the heirs of onetime Sultan Abdul Hamid II for properties in Egypt, Iraq, Palestine & Cyprus; before a mixed tribunal with a Danish president, one Turkish and one British judge; at Istanbul...