Word: arabization
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...Carl Baehr, Executive Secretary of the American Christian Palestine Committee, defended United States and U.N. policy towards Israel, saying that "The Middle East defense makes sense only if there is integration in the area." He accused the Arab states of trying to force the collapse of Israel through an economic blockade...
...Kurdistan is Russia's natural entry into the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean, the Middle Eastern Arab states...
Mohammed Naguib hopes to reorganize the league-and thereby the Middle East -under Egyptian leadership. As the Arab League delegates assembled in Cairo last week they were eager for a glimpse of the new strongman. He promptly snowed his hand, told Azzam to resign or be fired. Smiling, tarbooshed Azzam resigned. His successor: British-educated Abdel Khalek Hassouna, 53, onetime Egyptian Foreign Minister...
...brainchild of Britain's wartime Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, the loose-jointed league was formed in 1945 to promote the political federation of the Middle East-and to enable the British to deal with a single Arab agency instead of with half a dozen squabbling dynasties. At that moment, Saudi-Arabia's crusty old Ibn Saud grandly proclaimed that the league "enshrines the fondest hopes of the Arab people," yet by the time it was three years old, it went down to dismal defeat and division in the Arab-Israeli war. Since then, the Arab League has been...
...league had a long way to go before it could hope to be an effective international force. But it looked better last week than at any time since its beginning. "The Arab countries," observed one delegate, "have vainly looked for Egyptian leadership . . . We have it this time...