Word: arabization
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...tarboosh, they argued, nicely covers a bald man's baldness and adds to a short man's stature. Whatever the effect of their plea, Naguib continued knocking a lot of tarbooshes off a lot of prominent heads. Most prominent: Abdul Rahman Azzam, secretary general of the Arab League...
Thus far, the Greek clergy have resisted Russian blandishment, and remained loyal to their own church, but Greek Orthodox supporters are bracing for trouble. Said one last week: "Polikarp and his fellows . . . can travel freely throughout Israel and over the border into the Arab states without fear of a police check. An awfully large heap of gold sovereigns can be hidden away in a big car like theirs. And the Greek clergy are very poor men." Meanwhile, the Russians from the embassy keep attending Sunday services and praying for the worst...
...Middle East: The U.S. should call a conference of the Arab states to study '"tension, unrests and disagreements" in the area; should "make it crystal clear to all the world that any move toward Russian political, economic, or military domination in the Middle East, be it covert or overt, will not be tolerated...
...holy days just a week away, desperate airline officials appealed for help to Harold Minor, able U.S. Minister to Lebanon. Minor promptly dashed off a "night action" (most urgent) cable to Washington, pointing out that here was a real chance for the U.S. to make friends in the Arab world. Something of a miracle then happened: the State Department got the point. At Rhein-Main airport in Wiesbaden, Germany, at Wheelus Field in Tripoli, at Orly Field in Paris, U.S. airmen were suddenly alerted for special duty. Three days later, the first of 13 huge U.S. C-54s landed...
...until 1948 did he see combat. When the frontier squabble between the new state of Israel and the Arab League burst into flames, Naguib was against invading Palestine, not out of love for the Israelis (whom he still calls "the enemy on our eastern frontier"), but because he knew what the war would prove: that the Egyptian army was not ready for a desert campaign. "But the army was never consulted," he says with a bitter shrug. Naguib, a brigadier, took charge of a machine-gun and infantry regiment in the Sinai desert. He was the only senior officer...