Word: arab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernie Bevin exploded. He said in effect that he was sick & tired of U.S. pressure; Britain was treaty-bound to help Arab states, and good relations with the Moslem Middle East were as vital for U.S. security as they were for Britain's. But when Bevin calmed down he sent new instructions to Britain's Sir Alexander Cadogan at Lake Success: London would stop arms shipments to Arab states, provided the Security Council called for a general arms embargo which would prevent other nations, as well, from shipping arms and men to Palestine. The British also called...
Royal Greeting. Into the Old City of Jerusalem one day last week came King Abdullah of Trans Jordan, clad in a new uniform and white Arab headdress. Playing the double role of Saladin and Richard the Lion-Hearted, he prayed first at the Dome of the Rock Mosque, third holiest shrine in Islam, then in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. As the little king walked through the narrow lanes Arabs shouted: "Long live Abdullah! You are King of Jerusalem...
...still searching last week for some way to end the conflict. Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte was named as a mediator between Jews and Arabs. The U.S. pressed for a Security Council resolution that would recognize a "threat to the peace and breach of the peace" in Palestine, and pave the way for sanctions to enforce a truce. Britain balked. Unless King Abdullah's Arab Legion spilled over into territory marked for Jewish control by the U.N. partition plan, Britain apparently was not going to try to check him. On British insistence, the Security Council voted for another sanctionless truce...
...week's end, Israel's government announced that it would order Israeli forces to cease fire on the U.N. deadline, if the Arabs did the same. On the deadline, Arabs asked for another day and a half to discuss the truce order among themselves. But the brief hope for immediate peace flickered out when Arab spokesmen added a condition which the Jews would not accept: Israel's government must cease to function before the Arabs would consider a truce...
...Jerusalem last week, the A.P. set a record for roundabout communication. A.P. Correspondent Carter Davidson, on the Haganah side of the battle line, was only a few hundred yards across no man's land from A.P. Correspondent Dan De Luce, with the Arab Legion. To communicate with De Luce, Davidson had to send his message via the U.S. consulate to Washington, then to the A.P.'s New York offices, which sent it back to Arab Legion headquarters at Amman, Transjordan, which delivered it to De Luce in Jerusalem. Total straight-line distance: 12,700 miles...