Word: arabian peninsula
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...Arabia, or the $6 million a year that blear-eyed Ibn Saud gets from U.S. petroleum concessions. Yahya's Yemen has no oil with which to bargain in the bazaars of international high finance, but it is strategically located near the foot of the Red Sea, across the Arabian Peninsula from the Persian Gulf, toward which Russia reaches south and east...
Back to Joshua. Ibn Saud traced the Arab title to Palestine back to the Canaanites, from whom the Jews took the country. He flatly called the Canaanites "arab" because they came from the Arabian Peninsula. A critic pointed out that the Jews may have come from there, too, although Ibn Saud would scarcely call them "Arab." Nor would scholars check Ibn Saud's calculation that the Jews had ruled Palestine for less than four centuries. Westerners who added up Ibn Saud's own disputable figures got 627 years; the King...
...London Times correspondent has said that the Arabians will meet the same fate as the Indians in North America. We feel sorry for the Jews in Europe but we can't see why we should be the victims of their colonial expansion. . . . Italian propaganda in Palestine probably exists to some extent but I see no reason why we should exchange British rule for Italian. On the contrary, the Italian occupation of Ethiopia is a threat against the two independent states on the Arabian peninsula: Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Mussolini has no chance of gaining followers among the Arabians...
...Yemen (Amkino). This is an example of an elementary and important use of the camera too rarely attempted by U. S. producers: straightforward reporting. It is not a thrilling picture; it is interesting?a description of life in an independent state in the southwest corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It was made by representatives of the German and Soviet governments on a special expedition...
...Guinea, Ruanda and Urundi, Tanganyika, Yap, to which number should probably be added the countries on which no report has been made at all: Andorra, Ethiopia, Liberia, Muscat, Nauru, Siam, the Togolands (British and French). Practically within this group are countries which have sent less than five immigrants : Arabian Peninsula, French Cameroon, Japan,* Monaco, Samoa, Southwest Africa...