Word: arab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...travelled extensively in Europe and while in Palestine in 1938 he saw the British crush the Arab revoke "in efficient manner." He attended school in France before coming to Harvard, where he concentrated in French literature. He was a member of Eliot House...
...days before Germany's Balkan campaign, a pro-German Arab nationalist, Seyid Rashid Ali El-Gailani, overthrew five-year-old Monarch Feisal II's pro-British Regent. Because of the threat implicit in this coup, the British sent 1,200 troops to Basra, Iraq's main port, at the head of the Persian Gulf. El-Gailani acquiesced in the landing and publicly subscribed to the 1930 Anglo-Iraq Treaty of Alliance which justified it ("The aid of . . . Iraq in the event of war or the imminent menace of war will consist in . . . use of railways, rivers, ports...
...Arabs resented Britain's splitting them up into small States. The Arabs in Palestine resented Zionism and were sniping at British troops there last week. The Arabs in Iraq's neighbor, Syria, resented being kept a French mandate. Moslems everywhere, even in India, had longstanding grudges. If the Germans could warm over these resentments and arouse the entire Moslem and Arab worlds against Britain, the geographic guts would be knocked out of the Empire. Berlin, with its talk of jihad, did its best to kindle the Arab sheiks to flame. Newspapers and radio announced loudly that Syrian Arabs...
...fighting in Iraq (see p. 28) threatened the whole Moslem area of Empire-India as well as the Arab world. Disaffections, torn loyalties, old grudges: all these might even swing the Moslem parts of the Empire into the enemy's arms. The disaster of Greece (see p. 38) had brought up Dominion jealousies, which did not amount to much as yet but might another...
...Iraq, and most particularly London and Cairo, the Regent broadcast word that El-Gailani and a small group of Army officers had been seduced by Axis fifth columnists,* were trying to separate Britain from 4,000,000 tons of oil per annum and the all-important friendship of the Arab world...