Word: arab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Geneva the Zionists scattered to their home countries like quail flushing before a hawk. Their noisy objections to Britain's plans for establishing an Arab State in Palestine with the Jews as a minority were silenced by the spectre of other powers, less friendly to Jews, controlling Palestine. And in Britain's mind, the fate of Jews there dwindled to insignificance beside the fate of the Suez Canal, for which Palestine is a northern rampart, and of the oil pipeline from Iraq which reaches tidewater at Haifa. Realizing this, Zionist President Chaim Weizmann, a brilliant chemist...
...Some 50,000 fully trained young Jews were available in the Holy Land to swell 10,000 Jews already under arms. British troops in Palestine number about 20,000. To cut off German munitions bootlegged to unruly Arabs, the British last year built a wall along the Trans-Jordan border. They have courted Arab favor (over Italian-German incitement) with some success, rely on Turkey and her army of 1,500,000 to keep the Arabs in line and help hold the Suez as well as the Dardanelles. Last week the specially friendly, oil-rich Kingdom of Iraq bought...
...however, have repaired or rebuilt such shrines as the Basilica of the Transfiguration on Mt. Tabor, the Sanctuary in Aim Karem (birthplace of St. John the Baptist). Chief holy place not under partial or complete Christian control is Jerusalem's Room of the Last Supper, owned by an Arab family, which charges admission...
...hoof of Marengo, Napoleon's Arab charger, matched by a hoof of Wellington's Arundel...
...real losers of last week's French-Turkish diplomacy were the Arabs. As for the Republic of Syria, it will be a landlocked country, dispossessed of a sea outlet. From the sloping hills of Southern Anatolia to the sharp, barren rocks of Aden there were bound to be universal and indignant protests that the Arabs had again been betrayed, that an Arab State had again suffered as the pawn of British-French power politics. The soft, sweet words that Aggrandizer Hitler undoubtedly whispered to Khalid al Hud at Berchtesgaden, the inflammable anti-British and anti-French propaganda that goes...