Word: arab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Edward VIII and his advisers not decided to send an overwhelming expeditionary force to Palestine and bestowed the most extraordinary dictatorial powers of life & death upon Lieut. General John Greer Dill, when they ordered him to put an end to the Arab general strike (TIME, Oct. 5), the Arabs by now would quite possibly have slit most of the Jewish throats in that country...
...allowed to pass quietly. . . . British quarters have announced the stoppage of the strike through the medium of a declaration by General Dill in command of the troops in Palestine. The terms of this declaration are probably without precedent in British history. In fact they concede to the Arabs belligerent rights accorded to each other only by sovereign states at war with each other. General Dill has actually conceded to the Arabs the terms of an armistice in which the British forces are withdrawn from patrol in the affected areas for a given period, allowing the Arab bands to demobilize, conceal...
Ever since Irak achieved "nationhood" by ceasing to be a British Mandate and entering the League of Nations (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932), London has been anxious lest this key Kingdom on the route to India take the pan-Arab bit in its teeth and kick over the traces. These fears were sharpened by the sudden death of Irak's King Feisal, who had always been able to see things more or less from British angles (TIME, Sept. 18, 1933). Last week his young son King Ghazi, educated in British boys' schools, was abruptly mastered by pan-Arab chiefs...
British bombing planes used to keep Irak quiet, but last week Irak bombers were used by the Army's ruthless pan-Arab Major General Bakri Sidki Pasha to effect his putsch. He kept them circling over Bagdad for two hours, perfunctorily bombarded the Ministry Offices, and then issued a communique hanging around the neck of the 24-year-old King Ghazi responsibility for the change of Cabinet which by then had taken place...
Candid General Dill, who well knows that the Arabs still hate the Jews as much as ever, was not deceived into thinking that the suspension of the strike marked the end of Arab-Jewish hostilities. Not Arab benevolence but British might, General Dill admitted, had ended the strike. Declared General Dill: "The decision of the Arab higher committee was almost entirely due to the resolute and energetic action of the British forces...