Word: iraqization
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Instead of using the magic carpet of the Arabian Nights, King Feisal of Iraq will fly over the Arabian desert from Bagdad to Amman in seven hours to meet his brother Emir Abdullah of Transjordania in a political conference...
Islam is very active. A movement is on foot to reestablish the Caliphate at Bagdad. A Pan-Islamic conference to determine the character of the Caliphate (in which King Feisul of Iraq, King Hussein of the Hedjaz and delegates from India, Algeria and Egypt will take part) is to be held at Damar (Arabia) in the near future. The ex-Sultan considers himself both Sultan and Caliph and has a large following in the Islamic world, particularly with regard to his claim to the Caliphate. According to Mohammedan law it is impossible for two Caliphs to exist at the same...
...Chester Concessions. It arrived; and the Turks will go back to Lausanne stronger than ever. The Turkish move has, however, revealed Lord Curzon and his rôle of injured innocence in a most unfavorable light; for, more than once, he emphatically denied that Great Britain was in Iraq for oil: now it appears that Britain is not wholly disinterested...