Word: arab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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West Germany joined last week in the West's cautious advance toward getting along better with Gamal Abdel Nasser. Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard signed a bilateral agreement guaranteeing German exporters up to $100 million in shipments to the United Arab Republic...
...himself described the job as one "nobody in his right mind" would want. But in 1954 Lawyer Henry Richardson Labouisse of Wilton, Conn, became director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Beirut, and took on the thankless task of caring for more than 900,000 Arab refugees from Palestine. Labouisse gradually broke down Arab resistance to UNRWA, traveled all over Europe describing the plight of his refugees and gently dunning U.N. members for funds...
...whole Soviet leadership in Moscow met him at Vnukovo airport. Under giant paired portraits of Nasser and President Voroshilov, strapping paratroopers mounted honor guard. "Hail, leader of the Arab world!" shouted a drilled student group. Thousands excused from work lined the roads to the city, carrying Nasser pictures and waving little United Arab Republic flags in the bright spring sunshine. Jutting broad-shouldered and broad-grinning over the heads of Voroshilov and Khrushchev, the dictator of the Nile paraded, standing in an open ZIL convertible, to his luxurious guest quarters in the Kremlin...
Toasting "our dear guest" as a "national hero," Khrushchev proclaimed: "Ours is a peace-loving, selfless policy. We give to help the people of the Middle East. We want only one thing: consolidation of the position achieved by the Arab peoples." Replying, Nasser reviewed his old line against "imperialism" and "treacherous aggression," thanking his hosts for "your support and your ultimatum, factors which upheld freedom and morale" in the Suez showdown...
Normalize to Neutralize. Careful not to let his tongue outrace his ambition, Nasser added prudently: "The Arab people intend to get rid of every foreign domination. They believe in non-alignment." He had need of a little help, as well as loud hurrahs, from the Russians. His arms debts (including those he inherited by absorbing Syria) were strapping him: not only is his cotton crop mortgaged to Russia for years, but Russia is dumping Egyptian cotton elsewhere at lower prices, thus debasing its value...