Word: arab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less easy to dismiss the venom spewed forth next day by Saudi Arabia's Ahmed Shukairy. Speaking for the Arab princes who live on the royalties from U.S. oil companies, Shukairy exhorted the Western powers to get out of the Middle East and stay...
...chief difficulty of the U.S. proposals was that they rested on the assumption that a rational and moderate Arab nationalism exists, and only needs encouragement. It may exist, but it is not in control, and so long as incitements to assassination and prodding of hatreds and fears "work" better for Nasser, there was still little in Arab nationalism for the U.S., the U.N. or anyone else to latch onto. A subterranean current of passion and unrest, which might be dammed and might be diverted but cannot be stopped, is still the elemental force in the Middle East...
...Arabs are determined to be lord and master of their homeland, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arabian Gulf," shrilled Shukairy. "There must be a rushing consent to Arab aspirations before they are achieved without consent. This psychoneurotic complex of hating President Nasser should be extracted from Western thinking." The ferocity of his language might have been intended to convey verbal loyalty to Nasser and Arab nationalism while concealing Saudi Arabia's unwillingness to pool its $300 million-a-year income with its Arab brothers. As he put it, "Oil, our oil, is not a political commodity of international...
Trouble was that European enthusiasm found few echoes among the Arabs themselves; they might not have found much to resent, but still they would not cheer. Lebanon's usually pro-Western Al-Jarida complained that Ike had not addressed himself to "the basic problem of the Arab world"-Israel. The most hopeful thing a New York Times correspondent could find to say about Egyptian press comment was that it was "only slightly abusive...
...Special Interests. If Ike's long-range economic and political proposals got a slow welcome, the U.N. General Assembly could scarcely adjourn without working out a resolution that at least attempted to ease the pressing problems of Lebanon and Jordan. And here the problem was not only the Arabs, but a variety of special national interests in the 81-nation General Assembly: ¶ The Russians were sounding conciliatory in hopes of mustering a two-thirds majority for a resolution sufficiently ambiguous to be cited later as proof that the U.N. "ordered"' the U.S. and Britain out of Lebanon...