Word: egyptian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other results of the eight days' fighting were the decisive defeat of the Egyptian army (now reduced to half a dozen pockets), the encirclement of Gaza, chief Arab supply base on the coast, and the flight of the Mufti's Arab Palestine government from Gaza to a Cairo suburb, where it declared itself ready to cede "its" territory to Transjordan's King Abdullah. By routing the Egyptians and their stooge, the Mufti, the Israelis had greatly strengthened the hand of Abdullah, the one Arab leader with whom they thought they might successfully talk peace. By the same...
...Palestine last week, an earnest gesture of peace became a clever pretext for war. Last September, U.N.'s Count Bernadotte made a ruling on the hotly contested supply routes in the northern tip of the Negeb desert. The Egyptian army, he said, could use the roads for six hours each afternoon to supply their forces in the interior across an east-west road running under Jewish guns. The Jews, in turn, would have six hours each morning to supply their settlements in the Negeb across a north-south road blocked by Arab troops. When the Egyptians rejected the ruling...
...fortnight ago Correspondent Don Burke closed TIME Inc.'s Cairo bureau and made his exodus from Egypt. During his year there as bureau chief, the war in the Holy Land made things unusually difficult for journalists. The press censorship was intolerable to the point where Egyptian censors even rewrote correspondents' copy to suit themselves ; there were repeated acts of violence against foreigners on the streets of Cairo; TIME was banned for being "unfriendly to the Arab cause" after our May 24 cover story on King Abdullah of Transjordan...
Toward the end Burke was spending much of his time grappling with Egyptian bureaucracy. Last week, when he got to Rome, he was able to file an uncensored cable covering the events of his final weeks in Egypt: "One morning early in July a tarbooshed plainclothesman appeared at TIME'S office. I was to report to the Cairo governate. There I was ushered in to see another plainclothesman in what I presumed was the security police office. I asked him who he was and why he had summoned me and he said, 'You have applied...
...second summons came late in July-this time from the security section of the Ministry of Interior. En route I picked up two American Embassy officials for protection. The Egyptian Interior official, somewhat confused by my 'protection,' kept bouncing out of his office for quick hallway briefings during the questioning. At length, he asked sharply: 'TIME and LIFE are banned in Egypt. Why are you here?' I corrected him: TIME was banned; LIFE was not. He disappeared again, returned and said: 'That...