Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dana Fernald, Larchmont, New York; Robert A. Fisher, Birmingham, Michigan; Donald L. Garfield, Cambridge; Paul G. Garrity, Cambridge; Don L. Geeson, Alexandria, Virginia; Albert M. Gibson, Greenville, Michigan; Francis C. Gray, Jr., Boston; David Green, Valpariso, Michigan; William H. Guild, Hingham; Theodore R. Gullicksen, Quincy; Roscoe P. Hankin, Davidsonville, Maryland; Richard W. Homans, Canton; Dabney S. Johnson, Jacksonville, Florida...
...Jordan's Premier Samir el Refai Pasha underlined the Arabic character of the meeting. Though he wears European clothes in his native desert, he wore stunning Arab robes in Cairo. Most important, Saudi Arabia, keystone of any Pan-Arab federation and outstanding absentee at last autumn's Alexandria conference of Arab nations (TIME, Oct. 16), would attend the meeting in the person of Al Sheikh Yussef Yassin, personal secretary of King Ibn Saud. Yemen, the little state by the Red Sea, was not represented, but a delegate was also hopefully expected...
...Cairo conference succeeded, it would put into effect the Alexandria resolution for unified educational, financial, commercial, legal and foreign policies by all Arab nations. It would change the balance of power in the Middle East, might affect Britain, France, Russia, the U.S. But there were difficult, immediate problems...
Within a few days other Virginia papers reprinted the Meade article, ran editorials agreeing with the News Leader. The tradition-bound Richmond Times Dispatch, long a staunch Glass supporter, regretfully announced: "We join in the call." From the Richmond News Leader and the Alexandria Gazette came dissenting opinions. Able Powell Glass, the Senator's eldest son, who runs the Glass-owned Lynchburg News and the Lynchburg Advance, dutifully gave his readers a report of the discussion, without comment...
...Arab Portent. But the Kings had forgathered for more than fun. Their meeting, more than a symbol of union between the opposite ends of the Pan-Arab political axis, was a portent of Pan-Arabia itself. A Pan-Arab protocol had already been signed in Alexandria by Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Transjordan (TIME, Oct. 16). But a Pan-Arabia without Saudi Arabia was merely a desert mirage. Not that Ibn Saud was hostile to the idea. But he believed that Allah had entrusted him with the divine mission of knitting all Arabs into one nation. Knowing this, Farouk...