Feisal (EMIR first king of Irak)

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

EMIR, first king of Irak (Mesopotamia), was born in Hedjaz in 1885, being the third son of Emir Hussein. He was educated at Constantinople and was afterward elected to the Turkish Chamber of Deputies, where he became the leader of the Arab nationalist party. Perceiving that Turkey was about to enter the World War on the side of Germany in 1914, he escaped to Mecca and was instrumental in persuading his father to declare the independence of Hedjaz, and as a consequence to take sides with the Allies. In the war he raised an Arab army and acted in conjunction with General Allenby, whose right wing he commanded in the final advance on Jerusalem and Damascus. In March, 1920, an Arab congress at Damascus declared Syria independent and chose Feisal for king, but troubles soon arose with France, which in April, 1920, was named mandatory over Syria, and Feisal was forced to resign the throne. In establishing a new Arab state in Mesopotamia, England invited him to stand, with her permission, as a candidate for the throne of that country, and he was elected by the native assembly and was crowned king August 23, 1921. LAW, a law For the first time the rural population by the William Propounded the effect of the earth's rotation on winds and moving bodies in the northern and southern hemispheres. North of the equator such moving bodies are deflected to the right. In the southern hemisphere they are deflected to the left. FIVE-POWER TREATIES. (See 42,166,120 WASHINGTON CONFERENCE.) 54.2 FLETCHER, HENRY PRATHER, American diplomat and public official, was born at Green Castle, Pa., April 10, 1873. He was educated at Chambersburg Academy and under private tutors, studying law for four years under the Hon. D. Watson Rowe. He served as a private in the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War of 1898 and was afterward a lieutenant in the Philippine service, 1899-1901. He entered the diplomatic service in 1902 as second secretary to the American legation in Cuba, subsequently serving in China and Portugal. In 1909 he was appointed minister to Chile and in 1916 became ambassador to Mexico. In 1921 he was made Assistant Secretary of State under President Harding and on Jan. 3, 1922, was appointed American ambassador to Belgium.