Word: arabization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...over Aden in southern Arabia. Greece called for self-determination for British-held Cyprus (in the hope that it would go Greek). Guatemala wanted Britain to give up British Honduras to Guatemala. Egypt kept up her demand for British withdrawal from the Suez Canal and the Sudan. All the Arab states demanded an end to French rule of Morocco, even though the General Assembly's General Committee had voted against bringing up the subject in this session. When the Arabs persisted in discussing it, French Delegate Léon Pignon and his aides walked out. "The jackals are after...
Each brought a guilty conscience to the table. Ever since he drove Hussein into exile and seized his lands, Ibn Saud had feared the Hashemites would return for vengeance. Recently, the old man had become obsessed with the fear that the British would allow Jordan to use its Arab Legion-the most formidable force in the Arab world-to reconquer the Hejaz. Talal, for his part, evidently wants to prove that he stands with the Arabs and, if necessary, against the British. He is said to be ashamed of his father's pro-British role...
...swiftly stirred, and so swiftly tamped down, could easily stir again; no one on either side wore a hopeful, happy face. But the West was determined to go ahead-albeit slowly, and despite Egypt's refusals-with plans for a Middle East Command in which Western and Arab nations would participate as equal partners in control of the Suez and general security of the Middle East (TIME, Oct. 22). The U.S., author of the plan, found some encouragement in discovering that diplomats in other Arab states, while publicly supporting Egypt's abrupt rejection of the Middle East Command...
...British head of the Arab Legion, Glubb Pasha...
...Mustafa Shukri Asho, who killed King Abdullah of Jordan last July, had expected to escape under cover of grenades thrown by fellow conspirators, but no grenades were thrown. His fellow conspirators had planned that Asho should be killed by guards' bullets. On his dead body was found an Arab talisman bearing the words: "Kill, thou shalt be safe." In 1942 the Macedonian who attempted to murder Franz von Papen, then Nazi Ambassador to Turkey, was given a contraption (allegedly by Soviet agents) which, he was told, would produce a smoke screen to cover his escape. When the assassin touched...