Word: arab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet alliance and to line his country up in the ranks of the West. But when the Soviets countered with a coup that put proCommunists on top of Syria's army, the U.S. blundered into trouble, airlifting arms to neighboring Jordan with such zealous haste that even its Arab friends felt obliged to pledge ritually their support to the Syrians in the name of Arab unity. At home, the big U.S. news of 1957 was the unhappy sight of paratroopers with bayonets, called out reluctantly by President Eisenhower to enforce a federal court order admitting Negro pupils to Little Rock...
King Hussein of Jordan for outlasting the year-if he outlasts it-in spite of the warm friendship of his Arab allies and the well-meant advice of John Foster Dulles...
There were specific disappointments. French nationalists complained that the NATO leaders had not given France the ringing endorsement it sought for its Algerian policies. In the Arab nations of the Middle East there was widespread wrath at Turkey's Adnan Menderes. "The Turk will never understand the Arab," complained a Lebanese daily, outraged because Menderes had not pushed at Paris for the current Arab dream of forcing Israel back inside the restricted borders granted it by the U.N. in 1947. Fearful of just such a maneuver, Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion tried to counter by sending...
...that ambition. He has deliberately set out to make himself a responsible party leader. He has taken a strong position on civil rights for Negroes: he has been careful to treat Africans and Asians as if they were treasured voters. He has been pro-Israeli rather than pro-Arab, for more foreign aid rather than less. He has been careful to contrast his "understanding" of world affairs with the brinkmanship of Mr. Dulles, and has seized the chance to set his capacity for firm decision against the indecision of President Eisenhower. He is not a politician with deep conviction...
...Rejection, One Concession. Armed with this evidence that France has complied with last February's U.N. recommendation to work for "a peaceful, democratic and just solution" in Algeria, Foreign Minister Christian Pineau moved to the attack against Arab nationalists in the U.N. Political Committee (see box). He cold-shouldered Morocco and Tunisia as impartial mediators. The FLN levies its own taxes and recruits young men in Morocco's Oudjda province, he pointed out. Tunisia has made barracks available to the Algerians in Tunis and Souk-el-Arba, transports their men and equipment in government military vehicles...