Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...example, during the worst of the Arab riots in Palestine, he was in constant and dangerous touch with the Arab leaders. He reached and interviewed the Grand Mufti when he was being sought by the British, wandered through the Arab quarters with a nonchalance that frightened his friends. Visiting Correspondent Phelps Adams is quoted as saying, "Zinder knew what the Arabs would do and where they would do it almost as soon as they knew it themselves...
Died. George Antonius, 50, Cambridge-educated Christian Arab politician, power in the Arab Nationalist movement, author (The Arab Awakening); in Jerusalem...
Malta's stubborn defenders like to joke about the time when Old Dob Dob, sent to restore order during the Arab-Jewish riots in Palestine in 1928, said: "This will be the easiest war. . . . We will have to fight only four days a week. The Arabs won't fight on Friday, the Jews on Saturday and Dobbie certainly won't on Sunday." No Sabbatarians, the Luftwaffe forced Sir William to fight on many a Sunday, deepened his conviction that Naziism means nihilism...
Tens of thousands of Arab workmen were delighted by the good wages. But they remained skeptical about Britain's ability to stop the Nazis. Axis propaganda kept telling them that the British would let them down, whereas the Axis would make their dreams of a united Arabia come true. Two of the chief propagandists, operating from Rome, were Iraq's ousted quisling Premier, Rashid Ali El-Gailani, and the sly, self-styled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Jah Amin el Husseini. In Syria, mass dislike of the Free French-British puppet Government was breaking out in the form...
...fantastic to suppose that in the next few weeks great headway could be made with the Middle East's many national, racial and religious conflicts. It was not only a question of the pan-Arab dream. Turks feared Russians, and Iranians abhorred them. Syrians disliked French. Arabs and Jews were ancient enemies. Arabs loathed Turks. The Allied Middle Eastern command last week thought it would be lucky if it could keep the Middle East audience quiet while it battled Hitler on the stage...