Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviets sent along their naval attaché, Rear Admiral Eugeni Georgievich Glinkov (their new Ambassador has not yet arrived). But because of the U.S.'s part in the partition of Palestine, almost all the Arab League countries' diplomats stayed away...
...average U.S. citizen completely ignores the regularity with which the automobile kills him, maims him, embroils him with the law and provides mobile shelter for rakes intent on seducing his daughters. He takes it into his garage as fondly as an Arab leading a prize mare into his tent. He woos it with Simoniz, Prestone, Ethyl and rich lubricants-and goes broke trading it in on something flashier an hour after he has made the last payment...
Delegates from the seven Arab League states gathered in Cairo to discuss formal war plans. Arab League Secretary-General Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha told Cairo demonstrators who clamored for arms: "You will get arms-an abundance of them. . . . We prefer death to Zionist subjugation. . . ." The Lebanese Parliament voted a million Syrian-Lebanese pounds ($460,000) as a "first installment" donation to the "Palestine Liberation Committee." Deputies pledged one month's pay. Arab youths from Palestine were crossing the border for a month's training with the Syrian army, which had drawn near the Palestine frontier...
...Jewish side, part of the underground army Haganah came out into the open to protect Jews from Arab attacks. (This week, near Tel Aviv, Arabs in ambush killed the Haganah district commander, Joshua Globerman.) Jews set up twelve recruiting centers in Palestine. Increased immigration (present limit fixed by the British: 1,500 a month) would increase Jewish strength. The British government considered transferring 16,000 Jews to Palestine from Cyprus before Feb. 1, admitting 10,000 Jews a month to Palestine thereafter. U.S. officials in Germany, Austria and Italy began planning the movement of 6,250 Jewish D.P.s a month...
...Arab Communists in nearby Lebanon were apparently under no such need for semantic flips. Beirut Communist pamphleteers announced that they were ''ready to fight for the liberation of Palestine from Zionist imperialism...