Word: arabization
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...control Egypt . . . or even the Suez Canal, which should be an international responsibility. It is to create a stable and defensible structure in the Middle East; and while one necessity for this is certainly a firm base in the Canal Zone, another is the cooperation of Egypt and other Arab nations...
...sovereignty, had burst suddenly into open flame. Over the years, France had granted Tunisians more & more voice in their internal affairs in an effort to stave off Tunisian demands for independence. Over the years, Tunisia's nationalists, led by a dynamic yet reasonable and sternly anti-Communist Arab named Habib Bourguiba, 48, had remained dissatisfied. Two weeks ago, as a new French Resident-General arrived to exercise his country's sovereignty in Tunisia, the nationalist patience gave out. "It is not a question," grey-eyed Bourguiba told his people on that calm, sunny day in the arsenal town...
...Sousse, 800 Arabs armed with sticks of dynamite battled police armed with tear gas. A jaunty French colonel, full-uniformed to campaign ribbons and kepi, attempted to argue with them. Two pistol shots rang out, a heavy club landed on the colonel's unhelmeted head, and when the skirmish was done, an Arab dagger was found plunged into his chest. The colonel walked to his jeep and died. Eight Arabs were killed and 20 wounded in the battle. At Porto Farina, a Tommy gun mowed down one gendarme from behind a cactus hedge. "I've been stationed here...
...progress. The French colonists are always stronger than the French government. The agitation will keep on until world opinion interferes to stop this massacre." Yet Bourguiba still spoke mildly, demanding for the moment only "internal sovereignty," full of praise for French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman and denunciation of "extremist Arab forces causing such disastrous conditions" in Egypt...
...Aramco tried its best to anticipate Ibn Saud's every wish, from arranging lend-lease for Saudi Arabia and a cowboy outfit for one of the young princes to furnishing limousines, sweet water and gleaming refrigerators. U.S. technicians headed for duty in Saudi Arabia were assiduously schooled in Arab courtesy. No Christian chapel was built on the Aramco concession for fear of offending Ibn Saud's hard-shell Moslem subjects. The company wanted no trouble; it wanted to be allowed to stay around...