Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also, as usual, gave frank, personal opinions on controversial issues: he approved a United Nations plan for partition of the Holy Land with Jewish and Arab states. He came out for abolition of the veto in the Security Council, provided a satisfactory definition of aggression were written into the charter. In odd moments, despite his full and exacting schedule, he found time to prepare his speech on foreign policy for this week's appearance at Tacoma, Wash...
...Committee majority report, which has merited and received most unofficial, pre-assembly member nation support, designates the central coast line, northern industrial sector, and southern desert as Jewish. To the Arabs will go the northern interior ber nation support, designates the central coast line, would remain indivisible, with the frank recognition that Jewish taxes would, in large part, support the Arab area. With the transition period tentatively set at two years, it is urged that 150,000 Jewish refugees be admitted immediately, with another 60,000 per year to come in during the remainder of the period...
...chief stumbling block, Great Britain has decided that her present method of safe-guarding Middle Eastern oil is too costly. She is prepared to discard her mandate if the UN or some other group assumes the burdens of immigration and partition. Belligerently sprawled across the last lap is the Arab League, spewing forth a strange variety of threats, the largest of which is a warning that all Arab economic and cultural ties with the West will be severed at the outset of partition. This threat rings hollow because the financial and industrial concessions granted by the West in exchange...
...terms of physical force, the Jews appear well able to fare for themselves on the basis of their World War II record alone. But more important, the moral, economic, and physical weight of the UN will lie directly behind partition. However, Arab threats are not considered too serious. Sections of the majority report urging economic settlement with them will, in time, have a very healing effect...
With typical Gidean restraint, he suggests his fondness for Arab boys, his rapturous admiration for statues of the male form, his habit of following strangers who attract him ("I go out a bit toward evening and shadow a couple of fellows who intrigue me"). Nothing, it seems, came to Gide so easily as tears. The Journals drip from crying jags brought on by Gide's reading, his music, visits to art shows ("visit to the Louvre . . . wept in front of the Rudes . . . in the theater the mere name of Agamemnon is enough. I weep torrents...