Word: arabization
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Vichy had in North and West Africa (Dakar) some 120,000 troops, mostly Arab, Berber and Senegalese enlisted men and noncoms with French officers, and the thoroughly Germanized Foreign Legion. Thanks partly to many a Frenchman's and colonial's ingrained hatred of the Nazis, partly to the assiduous labors of De Gaullists and U.S. State Department agents (see p. 15), the invaders could hope for only nominal resistance from many of Vichy's troops. The colonial air force had perhaps 700 planes, many of them obsolescent, and many of these were concentrated at Dakar...
...example, during the worst of the Arab riots in Palestine, he was in constant and dangerous touch with the Arab leaders. He reached and interviewed the Grand Mufti when he was being sought by the British, wandered through the Arab quarters with a nonchalance that frightened his friends. Visiting Correspondent Phelps Adams is quoted as saying, "Zinder knew what the Arabs would do and where they would do it almost as soon as they knew it themselves...
Died. George Antonius, 50, Cambridge-educated Christian Arab politician, power in the Arab Nationalist movement, author (The Arab Awakening); in Jerusalem...
Malta's stubborn defenders like to joke about the time when Old Dob Dob, sent to restore order during the Arab-Jewish riots in Palestine in 1928, said: "This will be the easiest war. . . . We will have to fight only four days a week. The Arabs won't fight on Friday, the Jews on Saturday and Dobbie certainly won't on Sunday." No Sabbatarians, the Luftwaffe forced Sir William to fight on many a Sunday, deepened his conviction that Naziism means nihilism...
...fantastic to suppose that in the next few weeks great headway could be made with the Middle East's many national, racial and religious conflicts. It was not only a question of the pan-Arab dream. Turks feared Russians, and Iranians abhorred them. Syrians disliked French. Arabs and Jews were ancient enemies. Arabs loathed Turks. The Allied Middle Eastern command last week thought it would be lucky if it could keep the Middle East audience quiet while it battled Hitler on the stage...