Strange Lands and Friendly People by William O. Douglas IARPER
BROTHERS PUBLISHERS New York WILLIAM 0. DOUGLAS AND HIS SON, BILL
CONTENTS Foreword xi I COMMUNISM SOUTH OF THE SOVIET BORDER I
Terror in Greece 6 jo Walking Man 19 4 Picture Code 30 Azerbaijan
38 ri THE TRIBES OF PERSIA 51 Kurdish Nationalism 56 quot nce a
Kurd Always a Kurd 65 ons Are an Ornament 72 I New Deal for the
Kurds 84 dependence Is Preferred 87 Am a Lur 95 quot he Six Poorest
of Us 98 utcher of Luristan 104 un Play at Kuhdasht 1 10 he
Bakhtiari Save the Constitution 1 14 Goat Does Justice 120 n
Audience at Oregon 124 zrsian Hospitality 1 3 o Goatherd Sparks a
Revolt 133 y My Mother s Milk quot 138 Trust in God, but Tie Your
Ccmel quot 142 he Ghashghais on Horseback 145 he Ghashghais on the
Move 151 s an Old Ghashghai Custom 154 vii viii Contents PART III
RUMBLINGS IN THE ARAB WORLD 24. If s a Small World 25. The
Poisonous Bite of the Goat 26. Cedars of Lebanon 2 7. The Agrarian
Problem 28. Zayim 29. Jebel el Druze 30. Kemal Djumblatt 31.
Siblene the Magic of Ownership PART IV CROSS, STAR, AND CRESCENT
32. Hattin 3 3 . Josef and Fouda 34. quot Thy Faith Hath Made Thee
Whole quot 35. Moslem Women 36. SukhneWs Arab Refugees 37. The
Eternal City PART V ISRAEL 38. Into Israel - from the East 39.
Israel Experiments 40. quot From Dan even to Beersheba quot PART VT
INDIA 41. A Girl and a Basket 42. India and Asia 43. Nehru s
Welfare State 44. Jai Hind PART VII IN SUMMARY INDEX ILLUSTRATIONS
Feeling that readers of this volume would be particularly in
terested in the Iranian Persian scene, the publishers are including
a special section of pictures of that area taken by the author and
his friend Elon Gilbert. FrontispieceWilliam O. Douglas and his
son, Bill Jr. The following photographs will be - found in a group
facing page 1 12 Ghashghai mansion and gardens, Shiraz Old home of
Ilkhan of Debukri tribe of Kurds, Bukan Nasser Khan, head of the
Ghashghais, with the author on Namdam plain Ghashghais on fall
migration, 1950 Kurdish women, Debukri tribe, washing dishes in
spring, Bukan Ghashghais on fall migration, 1950 Amar Khan Sharifi,
Ilkhan of the Shakkak tribe of the Kurds Lurs sacrificing steer in
honor of arrival of the author A typical Kurd Ziad Khan, winner of
the Ghashghai shooting contest Bakhriari performing a stick dance
Thrashing floor, Azerbaijan Bakhriari women Morteza Gholi Khan
Samsam, Ilkhan of the Bakhtiaris, Shalamzar Persian goats eat even
the blossoms of thistles ix x Illustrations Russian border,
Azerbaijan, Persia Persian girl gathering chips for winter fuel A
street in a typical Persian village Typical tent and family of
Bakhtiari goatherd The author and Ahmad Khan, chief of the Persia
the Lurs The author interviewing Lurs of the Papi tribe Maku,
Azerbaijan FOREWORD REVOLUTIONS ARE sweeping Asia. These
revolutions, though often encouraged and directed by intellectuals,
spring from the peasants. These people illiterate, with a life
expectancy at birth of less than thirty years, and with a standard
of living far below anything we in America know are on the march.
This is nothing new it is part of a historic process that Wendell
Willkie faithfully portrayed a decade ago. These revolutions are
important to the future of each of us. Asia is the great staging
ground for Russian imperialistic designs, Asia holds the bulk of
the world s population. Asia has the great wealth of the world.That
wealth is mostly in untapped natural resources oil, rubber, iron,
manganese, and other minerals. Asia is also rich in matters
spiritual. The great religions of the world originated there. They
supply today powerful fighting faiths among the peoples. While they
are a cohesive force that holds large areas together, they
occasionally pit one people against another in bloody combat. Asia
is rich in literature and art and it is steeped in mysti cism and
superstition. Asia is also filled with unrealized ambitions...
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