Word: anti-british
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...evening, a 47-year-old, silken-mouthed Syrian politician named Marouf Dawalibi announced that he had formed a cabinet, Syria's first in three weeks. Dawalibi, a bearded law professor with a French wife, is a man of accumulated hates. He is anti-British, anti-Israeli, anti-American. He once said that "the Arabs would prefer a thousandfold to become a Soviet republic rather than a prey to world Jewry...
...last week, ugly anti-British riots flared up in Egypt. The Egyptian government had started it by abrogating the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian treaty under which Britain is permitted to garrison the Suez Canal Zone. Parliament, by unanimous vote, told the British to get out. And by the same vote, Egypt announced its intention to rule the Sudan alone, which Britain and Egypt have jointly administered since 1899. Fired by the brave deeds of Parliament, Cairo mobs howled: "Give us arms. Where are the arms?" Egypt's bloodthirsty Moslem Brotherhood vowed to "knock at the doors of heaven with...
...economic crisis was building in Egypt (in the past three weeks, the price of Egyptian cotton has plummeted). Amid such unrest, Nahas Pasha had unleashed the furies of nationalism and the always latent anti-British feeling. It was a desperate and dangerous move. If it failed, El Nahas Pasha's wobbly government might fall...
Three days later, in Iraq (Iran's sparsely populated but oil-fat neighbor), more anti-British demands were announced. Premier Nuri es-Said requested "revision" of a 1930 treaty which grants the British two air bases in Iraq, along the air route to India. Nuri has a reputation as an old friend of England, and his demands were diplomatically made, but even he assumed the proper anti-British posture. There was a reason: Egypt, the strongest Arab nation, had arranged through the Arab League for Iraq to follow Egypt's lead...
...There is a record of a well-educated American woman who, till the age of 30, thought that the Londonderry Air was an anti-British French song...