Word: arab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cairo last week for a conference on Pan-Arab problems came Premier Riad Solh of Lebanon. For the first time, he and his party represented an independent nation. The crisis over France's League of Nations mandate (TIME, Nov. 29) was settled. Syria and Lebanon had won their point: "all powers and capacities hitherto exercised by the French" had passed to their native governments...
...reaching consequences which followed tardily but irresistibly after he was gone-his life was one of the most successful ever lived by man. Three others, and only three, are comparable to it in worldwide influence: Gautmma's self-sacrificing sojourn among men, the stormy career of the Arab Prophet, and the 'sinless years' which found their close on Golgotha...
...some 35 miles from Beirut, a Lebanese rump government sat tight last week and awaited developments in its struggle for independence with the French Mandate authorities (TIME, Nov. 22), Its best game was to wait, to let the pressure of a general strike, uneasiness throughout the Levant and the Arab world, powerful influence from Britain and the U.S. force the French Committee of National Liberation to come to terms...
Egypt's ambitious Anglophile Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha, an active champion of an Arab federation, reprimanded Algiers. To captive President Khoury, Egypt's King Farouk sent a message: "We are sure the Lebanese will secure their independence. [They] can depend on our friendship in this critical hour." Syrian, Egyptian and Iraqi Arabs stirred angrily...
...British had enough troops in the Middle East under General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson to hold the lid down; they have been in actual military control of Syria and Lebanon since 1941. They were not averse to a fading of rival French prestige and power in the Arab sphere. But successful revolt in Lebanon might give ideas to the Arabs of British-mandated Transjordan and Palestine, British-allied Iraq and Egypt...