Word: arabization
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...officers and sailors saluting their guest at the rail saw one of the few living rulers who looks the part. Looming over them was a robed, resplendent Arab, 6 ft. 4 in. tall-the absolute monarch of some 3,000,000 subjects, the overlord of 3,500,000 more, the master of a few oases and of many deserts and mountains whose combined area (700,000 sq. mi.) is about one-fourth that of the U.S., the dominant Arab of the Middle East's Arab heartland...
...Cairo conference succeeded, it would put into effect the Alexandria resolution for unified educational, financial, commercial, legal and foreign policies by all Arab nations. It would change the balance of power in the Middle East, might affect Britain, France, Russia, the U.S. But there were difficult, immediate problems...
...liquidation of the French mandate, partially abrogated in 1943. They had sent a demand to this effect to the Big Three at Yalta, were still awaiting a reply. Meanwhile Britain, formerly opposed to continued French rule in Syria and Lebanon, was said to have switched to support of France. Arab solidarity in Cairo might mean full independence for the two states, but France and Britain would have to be reckoned with. The stake of the British Empire was emphasized when Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, en route home from Yalta, spent three days in Cairo...
...Palestine, since it is not an independent state, had only an "auditor" in Cairo. But the bitter question of Jewish-Arab conflicts in Palestine was high on the agenda-and here again British interests were vitally concerned...
...Arab independence of foreign rule had foundered once before, after World War I, when Britain withdrew her support of the Arabs after they had helped her to defeat Turkey. This time, there was greater power behind Pan-Arab aspirations. The rest of the world eagerly watched and waited...