The Politics and Commerce of the Middle East and India in 1931
The Near East and India. A Weekly Review of the Politics and Commerce of the Balkan Peninsular, Egypt, and the Sudan, Syria, Palestine, Turkey, Cyprus, Iraq, Persia, Arabia and India. Vols. XXXIX-XL (No. 1024-1076).
Folio (235 x 338 mm). Vols. 39 & 40. 53 issues: 736; 740 pp. plus preliminary matter, bound together in one volume. Contemporary full cloth with giltstamped spine-title.
€ 950,00
An entire year's run of the popular British newspaper that addressed the most pressing issues for the British Commonwealth. In 1931 these included the Palestine conflict and findings of the Palestine Commission, relations with Iraq and Egypt, political unrest in Burma, Cyprus and the Balkans, governance issues in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and two Round Table Conferences on constitutional reforms in India, involving the Gandhi-Irwin Pact, echoing conservative British policy toward the Mahatma: "Mr. Gandhi has always been a source of far greater embarrassment to his colleagues and friends than to opponents not altogether devoid of a sense of the ridiculous". Further, the December issues discuss the World Islamic Conference convened in Jerusalem at the behest of Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and Maulana Shaukat Ali, leader of the Indian Caliphate Committee. Attended by 130 delegates from 22 Muslim countries, the Congress called on Muslim states to avoid trade with the Jewish community in Palestine, concluding that "Zionism is ipso facto an aggression detrimental to Muslim well-being".
Among economic and finance news the newspaper discusses the Hoover Moratorium, a one-year suspension of Germany's World War I reparations obligations intended to ease the effects of the Great Depression and the ongoing international financial crisis and provide time for recovery. Reports on oil findings in Iraq, malaria outbreaks in India, slavery in Abyssinia, national elections in Bulgaria and other countries, industrial fairs and engineering news along with scattered advertisements for British Petroleum, Shell, Palestine Railways, the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, steam lines, shipping companies, banks and tailors, as well as book reports and a supplement on Persian art (1 January 1931) complete this journalistic take on the eventful year of 1931.
From the library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, a former Jewish institution of higher learning in Philadelphia, with the university's bookplate to pastedown and ownership stamp to title-page of each issue.
Corners very slightly bumped. Small tear to upper margin of title-page of issue no. 1059. Traces of vertical creasing throughout; occasional minor duststains.