Show STRONG RULERS IN THE ORIENT careers reminiscent of the arabian nights there are still men in the orient who have had careers typical of the arabian nights but even in the orient a certain change seems to have occurred no longer does the good will of a eunuch the pleasure of a pasha or the love of a princess bring advancement but remarkable a as it may seem courage courage courage with luck and diplomacy added mustapha kemal pasha had such a career rising from the position of commander of a turkish army corps on the palestine front to ruler of modern turkey alza shay had such a career rising from noncommissioned cossack officer to cossack colonel then from colonel to prime minister and then emperor of persia king ibn saud gaud had such a career ile he was born a son of an exiled arabian monarch and set out at the age of eighteen to win back his fathers kingdom just as the prince in the arabian nights goes to do battle against the evil jinnee binnee and between these three soldiers sold lera ruled a fourth king from the arabian nights living in bagdad the city of harun harlin al rashid he too was a new man on the throne who had also commenced hla his career on the field of battle he too was a figure out of the arabian Nig nights lits but king faisal of arak was a very different kind of man from his three neighbors the delicate descendant of a line of aristocratic priests he adapted himself to the more robust methods of the new politics of the orient king ibn saud sand his southern neighbor lg Is physically the strongest man in his kingdom a man of unlimited vital energy who has been married times time although he never ha has 6 more than four wives at once his western neighbor riza shah Is at least as big a man as ibn saud and whereas the king of arabia Is a comparatively parau ively vely slender blender man the than shah of persia looks like a pomeranian junker bony muscular with a square head bead and powerful jaw the dictator of turkey Is built in the same way ne ile Is an old soldier who can always summon up his bla ultimate physical reserves tor for battle or pleasure D dr 1 wolfgang V von W welse else in the neue rc arcle F r I 1 e P presse vienna a |