Word: arab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...19th Century grave charges of maladministration were made against the company's rule. Arab slavers had been largely suppressed, it was admitted, but cannibalism was practiced, natives were forced into labor and the association had a strangle grip on all trade. Various commissions of inquiry failed to humanize the company's rule and finally in 1908 the Belgian Government formally took over the Congo's administration...
...weeks armed Arab rebels, under German-trained General Abdul Rahim Haj Mohammed, former Turkish-Arab commander, have filtered into Jerusalem, some entering secretly through underground passages, others in disguise through the Old City's gates. By increasingly violent terrorism they had made life so dangerous for individual officers of the law that the British withdrew from most of the Old City to the largely Christian and Jewish city beyond the walls, there to await reinforcements...
Meanwhile the blazing Arab revolt showed an unprecedented contempt for British might. Rebels gained the upper hand throughout most of the tiny country. British courts of law ceased to function in all but the larger cities. Effective British government was confined to the boundaries of new Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa. Daily trains to Egypt operated only thrice weekly, and then under armed guard. Arson, murder, wanton destruction made the Holy Land a land of terror, reducing Britain's prestige in the Near East to its lowest point in history...
...London Lord Halifax, British Foreign Secretary, meanwhile had conferred on the Palestine mess with Foreign Minister Seyyid Tawfik al Suwaidi of Iraq, an Arab country which has done more than its part in fanning the Palestine fire. In a Cabinet session Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain discussed the peril of the Near Eastern civil war to the Empire's lifeline to India. Strong were the indications that Britain would shortly give in to Arab demands that Jewish immigration be stopped and that the population be stabilized at 400,000 Jews, 900,000 Arabs...
...Arthur James Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, can be attributed Britain's contradictory rule in the old Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. A one-sentence, 67-word declaration, it promised a "Jewish national homeland" but conspicuously failed to define whether a Jewish homeland meant a home with an Arab or a Jewish majority. At first high Arab leaders, equally lulled by Lord Balf our's vagueness, were inclined to welcome their "Semitic brothers" back to the Holy Land...