Word: arabization
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...ever fought the Russians." Between the world wars, he played polo and rode to hounds, became bayonet-fighting champion of the British army, made the 1924 Olympic squad as a 120-yard hurdler. He also saw action in Palestine, where he won a D.S.O. in guerrilla skirmishes against the Arabs. Palestine taught him "the mind and method of the guerrilla," and introduced him u) the Arab-Jewish problem: "I can remember lying in bed weeping about the tragedy...
Hached's union called a three-day strike. Three hundred Arabs trying to march on the headquarters of the French Resident General clashed with police. In French Morocco, also stirred by Hached's death, Arabs killed seven Frenchmen, horribly mutilating some. Then, as the Arab mobs surged through the streets of Casablanca looking for trouble, police opened fire on them, killed at least...
...where 13 Asian and Arab nations are demanding U.N. intervention to give Tunisia its independence from France, both sides used the assassination to support their argument. Arabs and Asians called it the product of "a wave of terrorism" inspired by French rule. Britain and Belgium, colonial powers like France, said the crime is a sample of increasing terrorism to come if the U.N. insists, in violation of its charter, on interfering in a matter that falls within the internal jurisdiction of France...
...agreed the Arab refugees of the Holy Land war constitute a pressing problem but argued that to bring back 800,000 Arabs to a land of 1,700,000 would place too great a burden on an already strained Israeli economy...
...mentioned Israeli Ambassador Iban's recent proposal at the UN, which suggested that the Arab nations and Israel start work on an overall program to develop the Middle East...