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...were shocked. "He treated us like fourth-form schoolboys," one complained. When the plan was published, many settlers condemned it as "appeasement of Nehru," and "too much too soon." But by 5:3O p.m. Oliver Lyttelton had his reply from all four groups. Whites and Indians accepted. Negroes and Arabs said no, but it was not a fatal no. Kenya's Arab dhowmen are politically unimportant, and the Negroes, it was obvious, were only stalling in the hope of improving the bargain, which indeed was not much so far as the blacks were concerned. "I found Lyttelton very sympathetic...
Joining together in uneasy collaboration, the groups which overturned the Shishekly regime 1) abrogated Shishekly's martial law decree; 2) closed up the offices of his personal political party (the Arab Liberation Movement); 3) abolished the 1953 "Shishekly" constitution, which concentrated all power in the hands of the executive; and 4) announced that there would be general elections soon-perhaps in three months...
...revolution, Dawalibi recently told a TIME correspondent: "The West wants us to forget about the enemy on our border [Israel] and worry about people thousands of miles away [Russia]. The West thinks we ought to follow them, just when they've helped the Jews to take away the Arab's country . . . The trouble with you Americans is that you always want other people to take your advice. You don't take anyone else's advice, and why should...
...especially noisy window one night he felt something cold tapping him on the shoulder. Turning around he almost tripped over a loosely-wired skeleton which was shining in the moonlight and shaking in the draught. But what used to frighten the museum caretakers the most was a ferocious-looking Arab who habitually did research in the museum at 5:00 a.m. No man would not quake upon seeing the blue-suited white-turban-clad Arab, standing amidst dummy Anthropology exhibits, suddenly turn about and stare at him in the dawn stillness in Peabody Museum...
...Control began in the '203, when Slessor and the R.A.F.'s Air Marshal Sir Arthur ("Bomber") Harris used it to subdue rebellious Arab tribes in Mesopotamia. The rebels got fair warning: cease raiding and lay down your arms, or your villages will be destroyed. Those who took no notice were bombed...