Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...genuinely democratic guidance-into a great peace. This is a "war of liberation.... The world is awake, at last, to the knowledge that the rule of people by other peoples is not freedom, and not what we must fight to preserve. ... In Africa, in the Middle East, throughout the Arab world, as well as in China and the whole Far East, freedom means the orderly but scheduled abolition of the colonial system. Whether we like it or not, this is true...
...first battle of El Guettar took place fortnight ago, when the 10th Panzer Division was driven southeast of the dusty Arab village, and U.S. infantry was in turn driven back from its forward positions on Djebel el Kreroua (TIME, April...
When General Giraud rose next day to speak to the Alsace and Lorraine Society in Algiers, he knew that the words he had chosen the night before would be heard by the world. On the speaker's platform were turbaned Arab leaders and the U.S. and British Ministers, Robert Murphy and Harold Macmillan, instruments of pressure for the liberalization of the Giraud regime. Freshly barbered, bayonet-straight in a tan uniform with five stars twinkling on each sleeve, Giraud strode to the platform. Green-bereted members of the Chantiers de la Jeunesse swung bugles high and blasted a march...
...film covers the North African campaign comprehensively. It begins with a review of French and Arab soldiers who greeted the U.S. troops in Algiers, ends with a front-line view of the first major contact of U.S. and German forces: a tank battle at Tebourba. There, from a hilltop that looks little more than a grenade-throw from the battlefield, the camera watches a group of Nazi tanks deployed in a small valley. German cannon, concealed in straw-thatched sheds, fire at approaching U.S. tanks. Then U.S. artillery takes effect; the Nazi tanks turn tail (their tails are painted...
...charge of an open boat." He wishes the astronomers would get together and say: "There is not much more that we can do in this mad war, though our skill and studies are guiding the ships, the aircraft and the soldiers every night. We honor the work of the Arab and the Roman who went before us, but these old names are hindering the spread of knowledge and hiding the glory of the stars. They are perhaps the most stupendous work of God and it is not fitting that they should be named after the beaks of hens, the claws...