Word: arabization
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...Sudan, whose 8,000,000 people have little love for British or Egyptians, it was the same. Sudan, rich in cotton and wide with desert, is 3½times the size of Texas. Its people, Arab in the north, African tribesmen in the south, want their independence. The British think they won't be ready for it for ten years, but may be forced to concede it sooner. Egypt's peremptory claim of control of the Sudan is opposed by all but one political party in the Sudan. And the resident British Governor General, square-faced Sir Robert...
...Congress has just allocated $50 million for Arab refugees, so they are not "forgotten people...
...What is there to stop the Arabs the world over to collect as much as they please for their unfortunate brethren? God knows that a few only of the Arab kings and sheiks could easily outmatch the donations of the Jewish communities in this country or abroad...
...Premier Ben-Gurion and his government [were] ready to make an initial contribution of a million Israel pounds ($2,800,000) toward relief of Arab refugees, but that cannot be done without setting up some kind of framework in which to deal with the Arab countries. This the Arabs refuse...
...treaty which grants the British two air bases in Iraq, along the air route to India. Nuri has a reputation as an old friend of England, and his demands were diplomatically made, but even he assumed the proper anti-British posture. There was a reason: Egypt, the strongest Arab nation, had arranged through the Arab League for Iraq to follow Egypt's lead...