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...group of Arab nationalists has confronted the U.N. General Assembly, convening in New York this week, with one of those practical moral and political problems which, from time to time, make the U.N. a genuine world forum. Since the U.S. will have a decisive voice in the debate, the problem is one for all Americans: What is the U.S. attitude towards modern colonialism...
...Arab Rights. The specific issue is the right of the Arabs, claiming to represent 90% of the population of Morocco and Tunisia, to sovereignty in those countries. Both Morocco and Tunisia are French protectorates (i.e., colonies) administered by French Residents-General under treaties imposed by force...
...were basing their case on the U.N. Charter, Article 2, paragraph 7, which provides that the U.N. is not authorized "to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state." Great Britain, also a colonial power, announced that it will support the French. But 14 Arab and Asian countries propose that the problem be discussed by the General Assembly. The U.S., which has supported France in its noninterference position, is now wavering. Members of the U.S. delegation recoil before the accusation from the small nations (and the U.S.S.R.) that the U.S. is refusing...
French Reform: Moroccan and Tunisian nationalist leaders in 1946 demanded the suppression of the French secretariat, administration and gendarmarie, the complete elimination of French influence from government except in local bodies where there was a French minority. The French government replied with a program of reforms which provided for Arab representation in local and municipal government. Reform plans were submerged under a hail of protests from the 1) French colonials, who thought the Arabs were getting too much, and 2) the Arab nationalists, who thought they were not getting enough. France still believes a compromise possible. The French...
Malouf took issue with Baehr when he said that the only people on the face of the earth who never persecuted the Jews were the Arabs--until the Balfour agreement. He and Miss Thompson teamed up to charge Israel with mistreating the thousands of Arab refugees in Palestine. Miss Thompson added that "The Arabs in Israel are second-rate citizens. How would you like it if you were treated like that here?," she asked the audience...