Word: arabization
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...Sunday in Manhattan, and the diplomats of the United Nations had postponed for a day their discussion of France's troubles with her rebellious North African protectorates, Morocco and Tunisia. But fanaticism knows no holidays, and in North Africa itself, Arab nationalists, urged on by the Communists, were busy seeking ways to exploit the latest incident...
...Arabs and 120,000 Frenchmen in Morocco's teeming, gaudy boomtown Casablanca, some 1,000 miles from the scene of the murder, had even heard of the victim, Tunisian Labor Leader Farhat Hached (TIME, Dec. 15). Yet Casablanca's Nationalist daily El Alam that day urged all Moroccan workers to mourn his death in a general strike. At a strike meeting in the headquarters of the General Union of Moroccan Syndicates, Abdesslem Jibli, knife-faced, hot-eyed Arab leader, fanned the flame of hatred for France before a crowd of some 1,700 turbaned Arabs and serge-suited...
...that night, a shower of stones fell on the roof of an isolated police station just across the dung-strewn road from Can Town, and within seconds the police were inundated by Arab rioters. "They appeared as if by magic," said one of the eight policemen on duty, "out of the ground, from holes in the wall. It was unbelievable. One minute the street was deserted. The next minute it was filled with a horde of madmen screaming for blood." The police fired at short range killing some 20 Arabs...
Shoehorns & Scimitars. At the end of the two days of rioting, some 3,000 Arabs were rounded up in the same union hall where the trouble began. As the police forced them into a sullen huddle, the hall was filled with the clatter of weapons-clasp knives, ice picks, scimitars, poniards, shoehorns, hatchets, fire tongs and brass knuckles-falling to the floor. Net score after two troubled days: 1,000 arrests; 100 or more Arab dead, 60 known wounded and probably many more cared for by their people; five European civilians dead and 13 wounded; three soldiers dead...
...week's end in Manhattan, France's friend, the U.S., which had alternately blown hot & cold on Arab nationalist aspirations, joined the majority at U.N. in deciding (by a vote of 27 to 24 in the case of Tunisia) to let the French settle their problems in North Africa without interference...