Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to a legend told by Syria's Faris el Khoury, an Arab counts only happy days in reckoning his age. On that basis, Arabs did not grow much older in the 18-day General Assembly session...
Algeria. In the oldest of France's North African possessions, and the most "assimilated" to French culture, there is an independence movement too. Fiery, 54-year-old Messali Hadj, Algerian Arab nationalist, toured the restless Kabylie district in March, repeated in village after village: "For 116 years we have been under the French yoke. Still we sleep on the ground, we wear only a simple gandourah, we walk barefoot, and most of us go three or four days without eating a piece of cake...
Morocco. Suave, white-robed Sultan Sidi Mohamed of Morocco last month shattered precedent by making a trip to the internationalized Moroccan city of Tangier. There he cut from his prepared speech a friendly reference to the French Union, lauded the Arab League. Said he: "Morocco is . . . solidly linked with the Arab countries of the Orient...
From Casablanca TIME Correspondent André Laguerre cabled: "The French settlers are worried about governmental instability in Paris, worried about Socialist direction of imperial politics because they think Socialist theorizing does not fit in well with the hard realities of administering a mixed nation (Arab and Berber) where democratic slogans have little meaning for the natives...
...evidence of the unrest in the gaudy, noisy streets of Casablanca? It would be wrong to give an exaggerated impression of panic, but. there is some such evidence. I note more sullen faces than were to be seen during the war years. Ahmed Moulouya Hadj, a bearded, bronzed Arab who has brought his vegetables from the sub-Atlantic plains to the Casablanca markets for the last 14 years, told me: 'We farmers are no longer the only ones who count. The country is becoming industrialized, with new habits, new men and new ideas. I am not sure what will...