Word: arabization
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...Lebanon, the tiny Arab state and French Mandate on the Mediterranean's eastern shore, the United Nations came up hard against two complex, trouble-packed problems: the demands of Arab peoples for political freedom, and the clash of Western imperialisms in the strategic region of Suez and the Persian Gulf...
...Arab Protest. None believed that guns were now a sound answer to the Arab nationalists. Lebanese leaders called the French arrests "kidnappings ... insulting to the [nation...
Egypt's ambitious Anglophile Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha, an active champion of an Arab federation, reprimanded Algiers. To captive President Khoury, Egypt's King Farouk sent a message: "We are sure the Lebanese will secure their independence. [They] can depend on our friendship in this critical hour." Syrian, Egyptian and Iraqi Arabs stirred angrily...
...Palestine. Few days before, two main foes of the main Jewish idea had been feted, dined, greeted, and generally given the full red-carpet treatment. The foes: Prince Feisal, Foreign Minister to Saudi Arabia's wily Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, and younger brother Prince Khalid. The grave, observant Arab Princes, ostensibly here to study "Southwest irrigation projects," thus far seemed to be spending a great deal more time with diplomatic bigwigs than in inspecting irrigation ditches...
...British civilian magistrate in Jerusalem 48 hours later came an Arab. The charge: illegal possession of a rifle plus 86 bullets. The sentence: six months' imprisonment...