Word: moslems
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Indian Round Table Conference struggled on in London last week, snagged on the question of future representation of Hindu and Moslem minorities in Indian Provincial legislatures, a question which Britons demand be settled before any definite promise of Dominion status is given. Far more important was the appointment of a new Viceroy for India: Free man Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon, Baron Willingdon of Ratton, at present Governor General of Canada. Latest previous royal representative to be appointed was the native-born Gover nor General of Australia, Rt. Hon. Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, shoved into power by Australia's Labor...
...Vagabond is disillusioned. In fact, he's terribly fed up. Here he is, a denizen of these Cantabridgian shores for countless lunar episodes. And looking out tonight on the drizzling raindrops trickling slowly earthward, hindered only by the ecstatic effulgence of the glittering celestial pyrotechnics imbedded in the Moslem minaret effect down Lowell House way, he like the Preacher, is firmly convinced that All is Vanity (note influence of Bible exams.) Why should he, after all these chimerian days of unappreciated amateuristic guidance, waste any more time advertising interesting lectures by interesting professors...
Meantime, disorder continued to bubble down the Indus, whose banks became the scenes of Hindu v. Moslem rioting. At Sukkur casualties were: 13 Hindus killed, 71 wounded; one Moslem killed, 33 wounded. In the revenue districts of Rohri and Ghotki, looting, kidnaping, murder were reported...
Last week Baron Edmond de Rothschild, head of the French Rothschilds (FORTUNE, Feb., 1930), sought to forestall repetition of such riots this Tisha b'Ab by offering to buy the Wall from the Moslem owners. Fifty years ago he made the same attempt. Moslems were willing. But pious Jews blocked the deal by clamoring that he would raze certain semi-sacred stone shacks near the Wall and replace them with a park. Last week the Moslems objected. The sacred Wall was too useful a political argument to relinquish...
...talithim (praying shawls) as they went at sundown to begin the Fast of Ab. Edward Keith-Roach, British district commissioner of Jerusalem, knew this was going on. He ordered admonishing posters prepared and had them fixed to walls. The work was done on Thursday so as not to offend Moslems by having Moslem employes work on Friday, their Sabbath, or by having Jews work on Saturday, their sabbath. His own sabbath, Sunday, was nerve-wracking for him. He was on tip-toe all that day, expecting outbreaks from almost any part of the city...