Word: arabization
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...national consciousness we weren't able to build in 40 years." But Morocco, unlike Tunisia, has few modern institutions of government, and Mohammed V, whose skill and devotion as a political engineer remain in doubt, faces the job of laying a solid roadbed atop the shifting sands of Arab ambitions...
...political figures sent into exile or to prison are called éloignés (distant ones). Last week in French Morocco and Tunisia two such distant ones were close at hand. Both were nationalists whom the French had once deported; both were also moderates on whom both Frenchman and Arab must now depend if calm is to be restored in North Africa...
...Department for arms to meet "the grave national emergency" created by Egypt's Soviet arms deal, Sir Anthony Eden was pushing a "compromise" plan to redraw Israel's border in favor of her neighbors. Eden, anxious to avert war (but also hopeful of weaning the oil-rich Arab states away from Soviet influence), proposed that new frontiers be drawn around Israel some where between the narrower limits proposed in the U.N. partition plan of 1947 and those accepted by the Arab states in the 1949 armistice...
Rights & Freedoms. In waging its propaganda battles, the Arab-Asian bloc sets great legal store by Article 55 in the U.N. Charter, which provides that the U.N. "shall promote observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion," and on Article 56, in which "all members pledge themselves" to cooperate with the U.N. to achieve these purposes. But, said South Africa's Du Plessis, the very committee which drew up these provisions stipulated in the records that Article 55 gives the U.N. no right to interfere in domestic affairs...
...resist any U.N. foray into race relations in the South, abstained in last week's vote. Though some advisers acknowledge South Africa's legal case, the U.S. hesitates to side with South Africa even when it is technically right. Officially, the U.S. takes the stand that the Arab-Asian motion is not "the best way to achieve constructive results," on the ground that U.N. discussion of South Africa's restrictive policies would only harden white South Africa's support of apartheid...