Word: arab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When one reads of the inhuman and needless carnage of the Iraq revolt, one wonders if the teeming masses of the Arab countries are capable of, or indeed have a right to, self-determination...
...Combat Poverty. "To help the Arab countries fulfill their aspirations," the President proposed a regional economic development institution, "governed by the Arab states themselves," to which other countries would contribute money and technical assistance. If the Arab countries agree to set up such an institution and "support it with their own resources, the U.S. would also be prepared to support it" (with perhaps $100 million a year, said Administration spokesmen...
Besides, Nasser offers another form of membership in his club, not so binding as Syria's merger with Egypt in the United Arab Republic, which has not worked well, as even Nasser admits. Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and eventually Jordan might be persuaded to join a looser association called the United Arab States, which now links the U.A.R. with the feudal Imam of Yemen, a ruler whose primitivism makes the sheiks of Saudi Arabia appear enlightened democrats by comparison.* By joining the U.A.S., other Arab rulers might hope to keep some internal autonomy and some hold on their fabulous...
...Israel's best Afro-Asian friends-especially Ghana and Burma-made their disapproval clear. Two left-wing parties in Ben-Gurion's coalition were strongly against letting Israel appear too committed to the West. Furthermore, Israel has tried to avoid backing one faction or another among Arab powers, whether Hussein or Nasser, on the ground that all are violently anti-Israel...
...Cyprus. For six weeks an apparent softening had been noticeable in the Greek position, a willingness to explore a settlement that would not insist on the future rights of enosis, i.e., the union of Cyprus with Greece. Turkey, too, was so absorbed by the revolutionary turmoil of her Arab neighbors that Cyprus for the first time in months was off the front pages of Turkish newspapers...