Word: arabization
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Tens of thousands of Arab workmen were delighted by the good wages. But they remained skeptical about Britain's ability to stop the Nazis. Axis propaganda kept telling them that the British would let them down, whereas the Axis would make their dreams of a united Arabia come true. Two of the chief propagandists, operating from Rome, were Iraq's ousted quisling Premier, Rashid Ali El-Gailani, and the sly, self-styled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Jah Amin el Husseini. In Syria, mass dislike of the Free French-British puppet Government was breaking out in the form...
...breathed easier when Prime Minister Nahas Pasha appointed Sir Amin Osman Pasha as a liaison officer between the British and Egyptian Governments. Sir Amin had worked smoothly with the British in carrying compromise proposals to Haj Amin El-Husseini, fugitive Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, in the midst of the Arab-Jewish agitation over Palestine in 1939. The British were confident Sir Amin would bring reassurances such as TIME has received* that Egypt's young King Farouk was firmly pro-Ally...
Through this dusty plot shuffles blue-eyed Gene Tierney, 21, cast as a sort of desert branch manager of a Bedouin A. & P. Co. chain. Supposedly a half-caste daughter of an Arab trader, she manages to remain as dead-pan as all good Arabs are supposed to be. Of course she turns out to be Miss Graham Fletcher, a British operative...
...TIME, Nov. 3, under World War,"D.S.O. to a Legend," article about Major John Bagot Glubb [Commander of Britain's Arab Legion in Trans-Jordan...
This exploit made his place in the Arab world secure. Feared and respected in Arabia even more than Lawrence was, Glubb Bey is now the rock under Britain's shaky Arab household. His quiet demeanor hides fighting anger which makes him deadly when aroused. Of all his colorful Arab nicknames Glubb prefers Rai el Boueidah (Guardian of the Little White Camel), which he earned for saving the life of a young camel during a skirmish...