Word: arabization
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...Arab State of Iraq is as juicy with oil as an olive. So far it has hung on the British economic tree, but last week Britain, experienced as it is in handling olive branches, began to be afraid the Iraq olive would fall...
After the ceremony a series of celebrations began which even Cleopatra would have found titillating. Three million Egyptians from the hinterland cheered floats of flowers in the streets. Airplanes showered Abdin Palace with rosettes in Egyptian and Iranian colors. Sudan racing camels and Arab stallions crowded the capital's streets. At a reception, each guest received a jewel-encrusted gold box of bonbons (value: $1,000). At night there was a huge banquet at which no liquor flowed (Moslems are dry). The Nile shimmered with reflections of colored fireworks. Later, at another reception for Egyptian royalty and nobles, Fawziya...
This week the showdown came. Unable to bring all the Arab and Jewish delegates together during three weeks of the abortive Round-Table Conference, the British Government, rather than allow the deadlock to continue, threw its cards on the table. In an "unofficial recommendation" submitted by Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald to the Arab and Jewish delegations, the British Government proposed that they end their League of Nations mandate over Palestine and set up the Holy Land as an independent state, tied by treaty relations to Britain...
...British suggestion said nothing about the ultimate internal government of independent Palestine, but Secretary MacDonald was understood to have informed the Arab delegates at a private session at his country home that Britain contemplated the establishment of a mixed, Arab-Jewish government, in which the two races would be represented according to population. Unless an unthinkably heavy influx of Jews was allowed in the next few years, this would mean that the Arabs would outnumber the Jews...
...Arabs, the British solution was a big victory. The extremist Arabs, followers of the exiled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el Husseini, were inclined to hold out for their original demands-complete Arab control of an independent Palestine-but the moderate Palestine Arabs and the Arabs from the other nations represented at the Round-Table meeting were disposed to accept the British plan. In Palestine, Arabs openly demonstrated their satisfaction with the British suggestions. Arab crowds took to the streets to celebrate "the reconquest of Palestine from the British." In the Holy Land this week bloody clashes among Jews...