Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Iraq's excitable, blustering Fadhil Jamali likes to scold Americans about Zionism: "The trouble with you Americans is that you think it is a case of a people without a homeland moving into a land without a people." Saudi Arabia's cool, ceremonious Prince Feisal al Saud is the only Arab head delegate who wears flowing native abaya and qutra. His Egyptian colleague, suave, man-of-the-world Mahmoud Hassan Pasha (whose country contests with Lebanon the intellectual leadership of the Arab world), often wears sports clothes to U.N. sessions. The head delegates and their staffs...
Among the 55 delegations were representatives of five Arab states (Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia), who regarded the cause of Palestine Arabs as their own. But the success or failure of a Palestine solution ultimately depended on the U.S., the United Kingdom, and the U.S.S.R...
Sharp-tempered Jimmy Moffett filed suit for $6,000,000 against Arabian American Oil Co. (owned by Standard Oil Co. of California and the Texas Co., which also own Bahrein Petroleum), holder of the vast oil concessions in Saudi Arabia (TIME, March 24). This sum, said he, was due him for political chores done while he was with Bahrein Petroleum. When a Senate committee perked up its ears at this charge, Jimmy Moffett gladly told his story...
...British way. There was little about the dapper, languid Abdul Illah (who likes Bond Street clothes, flowers in his buttonhole and cocker spaniels) to show that he was the son of a desert king, Ali of the Hejaz, who had been pushed from his throne,in 1925 by Arabia's flowerless, buttonless Ibn Saud...
...Burman justice named Chow Mien, leading a delegation notable for magenta skirts and orange Aunt Jemima turbans, took up Nehru's song of independence from the white man's rule. So did Mustapha Momen of the Arab League, whose delegates represented distant Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Saudi Arabia. Said he: "Liberty has dawned and the world is destined to witness another renaissance in Asia." The first voice which had raised a war cry of "Asia for the Asiatics" was missing. Japan was not represented because, said Nehru, "Japanese are not allowed to leave their country at present for such...