Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With recent developments in the Near East pointing toward increasing ferment in the Arab world, Philip W. Ireland, instructor in Government, yesterday pointed out that many Arab leaders, though by no means the majority, are willing to enter into alliance with the devil himself if that means promoting the Arab nationalist movement...
...look at the Iraq situation. The British had decided to get the pro-Axis revolt there in hand while the invasion of Crete gave them a breather on Middle Eastern mainlands. A trek of hundreds of British trucks, armored cars and mechanized guns, and thousands of Indian and Arab levies set out from the Mediterranean coast for Middle Iraq, to relieve the besieged airport of Habbania. The last 400 miles was across waterless, roadless wastes...
...unpleasant job to turn Paris over to the Germans last summer, and thinks the fall of Paris was mostly Britain's fault, warned that he would "oppose force with force." But other Frenchmen were angry at Frenchmen-for helping the Nazis. Colonel Philibert Collet, tiny, quiet, Arab-speaking onetime Governor of Lebanon, whose wife is English and whose spirit is French but tough, last week went over to the British and Free French cause, leading with him some of his wiry Circassian cavalrymen...
...their Habbannia airport. German cadres of officers headed Iraqi troops for new infantry attacks near Basra. The British counter-bombed the Luftwaffe bases. The Fleet Air Arm planes flew 160 miles up the Tigris to bomb oil tanks at Amarah. R.A.F. fliers caught convoys of French motor trucks carrying Arab volunteers from Syria to Iraq...
...named Dr. Fritz Grobba. He was born Arthur Borg and as a boy was prophetically nicknamed "the Turk," because he looked like one. As a soldier in World War I he was assigned to the Turkish Front, was wounded, and, as a convalescent, fell in love with a Syrian Arab girl. He took her back to the mountains of Bavaria; but her lungs were not fit, and she died. Borg became a Mohammedan, studied Orientology, and eventually was persuaded by General Erich Ludendorff to undertake military intrigues in the Middle East. He disguised his name by spelling his signature...