Word: arab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...itself staring at the newest problem in its lap: What now? Said Britain's Colonial Secretary, who doubles as a delegate: ". . . The mandate should now be terminated. ... I earnestly hope that the United Nations may have more success than the United Kingdom has had in persuading [Jews and Arabs] to cooperate. . . ." As he spoke, Jewish representatives and Arab committeemen sat with their backs to each other...
...intercepted another shipload of Jewish refugees; one Jew was shot to death and nine were wounded in a scuffle with the boarding party. In Palestine, Haganah stepped up recruiting. Five Zionist leaders, including Jewish Agency President David Ben-Gurion, received messages signed by "the commander in chief of fighting Arab youth for free Palestine." The messages promised: "You will die as soon as possible...
From Jerusalem, the Arab Higher Committee invited the Arab and Islamic worlds to demonstrate Oct. 3 for an Arab Palestine. The Moslem League paper Dawn pleaded for a united Moslem front for 5,000 miles, from Morocco to the Punjab, called on Moslems to stand together "like bricks in a wall...
...Arab, dirty and wounded, lay on the road, victim of a hit-&-run driver. Bayard Dodge, a young American, was on his way home after weary hours of doling out food to starving Beirut factory workers. Famine had sharpened the Near East's normal indifference to death; of all those who passed the sufferer, only the American stopped. Dodge took one look at the man's body, saw that there was life in it, picked him up and drove him to a hospital...
...century as A.U.B.'s president, Bayard Dodge has done more than any other single American to win and keep good will for the U.S. in the Near East. The friend and teacher of sheiks, princes and prime ministers, he knows how to eat rice and roast lamb the Arab way. He also knows how to lecture his Arab friends like a kindly if somewhat exasperated uncle, without losing their affection or respect. His favorite lecture topics: the inadequacy of "political formulae and agitation" to solve Arab Asia's problems; the need for hard work, sacrifice and faith...