Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Settle the Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine by partitioning the Holy Land...
Professor Elliott referred to the Jews and Arabs as "merely pawns." The Arab nation may be the oawns of British policy and Angle-American oil interests. The Jews were pawns of Hitler, not of Karl Marx. Mendy Weisgal '45, 2G. Vice-Chairman, Harvard Zionist Society
Lest they feel that he is different, he scratches and squashes imaginary lice while he talks with lice-ridden Bedouins.* Contrary to pukka British practice, he lets Arab enlisted men eat from the same dishes as their officers. In 27 years among the Arabs (ten of them in Iraq), he has become known as the Arabs' great friend...
...general's rank and the title Pasha (equivalent of "lord") were bestowed by Abdullah. His rank in the British army when he became commander of the Arab Legion (1939): acting major. His permanent British rank: captain in the officers' reserve. His temporary "local" British rank in Trans-Jordan: acting brigadier...
...Arab prover says that a deserted head shows an ungenerous mind...