Word: arabization
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...riding a handy, sure-footed grey Arab polo pony. We wheeled and began to gallop . . . Bright flags appeared as if by magic, and I saw arriving from nowhere Emirs on horseback . . . The Dervishes appeared to be ten or twelve deep at the thickest, a great grey mass gleaming with steel. They seemed to be wild with excitement, dancing about on their feet, shaking their spears up and down . . . I found myself surrounded. I fired . . . Three or four men from my troop were missing . . . Trumpets were sounded . . . Two squadrons were dismounted and in a few minutes their fire . . . compelled the Dervishes...
...additions, was to grow only smaller. Already in London young Churchill, on the threshold of a brilliant parliamentary career, was immersed in discussions about colonialism and "the issue of whether peoples have a right to self-government or only to good government." The Sudan got "good" government. For centuries Arab slave traders from the north had raided the Negro villages of the south, sold their captives on eastern markets. The British put down the slave trade. The dancing Dervishes became respectable Sudanese, and the British educated them...
Counterrerror. But was the Sudan quite ready for independence? When Moslem Sudanese took over the British-trained Negro defense corps last August, the old hatred between Negro and Arab burst into flame. In Equatoria, southernmost province of the Sudan, the Negro soldiers rebelled, killed their officers and all Arabs they could find. Said a Negro Sudanese: "They talk of independence, but for us independence simply means slavery under the Arabs...
...paper, admit Algerians to full citizenship (with voting rights for 15 Deputies in the French National Assembly). Yet Algerians are no longer beguiled by the notion that they are Frenchmen. "We are only French when they want us to fight or die for them," said a bitter young Constantine Arab. "When we need a job, we're not French; when we fight for our freedom, we're not French but bloodthirsty fanatics. Once we loved the French like brothers, and many of us hated to turn against them. But now they have put hate into our hearts...
First reports suggest that benevolence is working in a few well-guarded areas. Governor Soustelle's comment: "We must go further." Soustelle hopes to hold Algerian elections next summer (if Paris allows him to) and to discuss a permanent settlement with the more moderate Arab leaders. Yet, as in all French North Africa, Algeria's 1,000,000 French colons are terrified that home rule will submerge them under the votes of 8,000,000 Algerian Arabs. To reassure the colons (and their powerful backers in France), Soustelle announced last week: "We should never have lost Indo-China...