Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Secretary of State George Marshall pointed out the hard facts. Such a revision, he declared, could only mean the disintegration of U.N. The Soviet bloc, the Arab states, perhaps the Far Eastern bloc would walk out, leaving the world divided into three or four armed camps. Many friendly nations, with whom the U.S. has a strong working alliance in the U.N., would jump for a neutral corner. Said U.N. Delegate Warren Austin: "The only possible bridge between the East & West would collapse; and yet, the problem of bridging the gap between the East & West is precisely the crucial problem...
Palestine's Arabs had little time to think about a new government. One Arab leader estimated that 200,000 of his countrymen had already fled the country. To save themselves from complete defeat, Arabs looked for help across the Jordan to King Abdullah...
Last week Abdullah continued to receive the homage of Arab leaders. The Arab League Secretary General, Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, arriving for a conference at Abdullah's palace, bowed low, kissed Abdullah's carefully manicured little hand, then placed it reverently against his forehead in the Arab sign of deference. There was more hand-kissing as Abdullah inspected the Iraq ist Brigade, which had just arrived to reinforce his Arab Legion. Said Abdullah: "I shall enter Palestine after May 15 ... even if the Arab League decides to accept armistice proposals...
...Arabs were thinking less of trying to conquer the Jewish enemy than of defending their own parts of Palestine. Both sides were willing, for the moment at least, to keep Jerusalem off the list of battlefields. British High Commissioner General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham won Arab and Jewish acceptance of a ceasefire order for the city. To back it up, the British moved in heavy tanks and guns...
Abdullah's Legion was the only major Arab force ready to move quickly and effectively. But it was easy to exaggerate what such a force could accomplish. And the Legion could not move far without a green light from the British, on whom it has depended for money, arms and leadership. One of Abdullah's visitors last week was Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, mild-mannered secretary general of the Arab League. He made no rash claims. Unshaven and weary, with his tarboosh pushed far back on his head, he admitted disconsolately that the Arabs were "the most inefficient...