Word: arabization
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...last impassioned appeal to the U.N. Security Council, Israeli Delegate Abba Eban cried out that the verdict against his country was "more vehement and intemperate" than any the Council had ever rendered, even against the Communist aggressors in Korea. But he went down to defeat. Arab Spokesman Charles Malik of Lebanon hailed the censure as "the first gleam of hope in years that the Arabs are not going to be wronged again...
...David Ben-Gurion has been the fire brand, Moshe Sharett is the count-the-costs civil servant. He went to Israel from Russia at the age of eleven, and grew up amidst Arab farmers, learning their ways and their tongue. He never forgets that Israel is a tiny island in the Moslem sea. In 1913 Sharett enrolled in law at the University of Constantinople; with the outbreak of the war he was drafted into the Turkish army as an officer, and fought at one time against T. E. Lawrence's Arab irregulars...
...that many of them called it by the name of the tribe to the north or the northeast of them. So he concludes that American corn was not brought to coastal Africa by the Spanish or Portuguese but that it came overland from the north, probably introduced by earlier Arab navigators...
...Arab Explorers. Another Witwatersrand professor, Dr. M.D.W. Jeffreys, has been working on a more recent problem of African history: Did Africans make contact with the Western Hemisphere before the time of Columbus? Dr. Jeffreys thinks that they did, and he bases his theory on pottery made about 900 A.D. by the Yoruba tribe of West Africa. Some of it appears to have been decorated by rolling a corncob over wet clay. Since corn almost certainly originated in the Americas, this suggests that Africans, or Arabs sailing from Africa, crossed to the New j World 500 years before Columbus and brought...
...representatives will debate the Israeli-Arab problem. Raymond Dennett '36, Director of the World Peace Foundation, will be the keynote speaker...