Word: arab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arab cause in Palestine has no more expert pleader than polished scholarly George Antonius. An Arab Christian (110,000 of Palestine's 1,000,000 Arabs are Christians) educated at Cambridge, Mr. Antonius was, like Colonel T. E. Lawrence, a British official in Egypt during the World War. After the War he was a member of several British diplomatic missions and an assistant secretary in the Palestine Government until 1930. Mr. Antonius has been to many a foreign correspondent a sort of unofficial spokesman for the Arab High Committee...
...British Arabic broadcasts, begun a year ago to counteract Italian influence, found little favor at first because they specialized in American swing and European folk songs, both unintelligible to Arab ears. Last week Britain gave a special broadcast for the first anniversary of the Arabic program, which showed not only that Britain had learned a few broadcasting tricks, but demonstrated the advantages of a full purse in the radio propaganda game...
...trackless, roadless waste, at a point halfway between the blue Mediterranean and the bleak Matmata Mountains, M. Daladier and his official escort reviewed a formidable parade of fighting men and equipment: white-robed Spahis, galloping on their small Arab horses, black Senegalese bands playing trumpets and fifes, camel corps with both officers and men barefoot, guiding their awkward mounts by pressing the big toe against the camel's neck. Curious nomadic Bedouins watched the strange proceedings...
...Cruiser Foch, M. Daladier proceeded to Algiers, where Arab chieftains and Zouave and Spahi detachments accompanied him to a monument for Algerian War dead. Here M. Daladier summed up the impressions of his trip: "The Colonials are French-they will stay French...
...item 1) Mr. Ziff states that the British policy has been that of divide and rule. I for one agree with him on that point but to go on further and say that the English have carefully nursed Arab anti-Semitism is a shocking blunder. Since when have the Arabs become Aryans and since when have the Jews acquired the monopoly over Semitism...