Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alumni Club. The delegates of the five Arab states in U.N. gathered round to congratulate London-educated Lawyer Cattan. They formed a group of westernized Arabs, divided by many rivalries, but united by a common hatred of Zionism. Big, hawknosed Charles Malik, the rangy giant of Lebanon, once taught philosophy at Harvard. His part-Christian, part-Moslem state favors Arab independence but fears a pan-Islamic movement which might engulf the Christians of Lebanon. Little, white-thatched Paris el Khoury of Syria has spent a lifetime in politics opposing the Turks, the French, and now the Zionists. He likes...
...excitable, blustering Fadhil Jamali likes to scold Americans about Zionism: "The trouble with you Americans is that you think it is a case of a people without a homeland moving into a land without a people." Saudi Arabia's cool, ceremonious Prince Feisal al Saud is the only Arab head delegate who wears flowing native abaya and qutra. His Egyptian colleague, suave, man-of-the-world Mahmoud Hassan Pasha (whose country contests with Lebanon the intellectual leadership of the Arab world), often wears sports clothes to U.N. sessions. The head delegates and their staffs are not only a well...
...away from Lake Success, another Arab nodded approvingly at Cattan's performance. From his beflowered villa in Cairo's Qubba Gardens (guarded inside by Palestinian gunmen, outside by Egyptian troops), Haj Amin el Husseini, onetime Mufti of Jerusalem and Nazi collaborator, directed the work of the Arab Higher Committee. Said he: "We go to New York, but we are under no obligations to accept any solution unless it is favorable. If unfavorable, we will fight...
India's loquacious, figure-fumbling Asaf Ali had the greatest number of questions to ask Zionist and Arab spokesmen. He turned to Henri Cattan, and asked (as if he knew): "Do you realize that in the Dead Sea there are $3,000,000,000,000 worth of minerals?" Cracked the committee chairman, Canada's witty, brisk Lester Pearson: "Gentlemen, I think our work is over. . . . We have found [indicating Asaf Ali] our special committee of inquiry...
...France's overseas granary-worries the French as much or more. In Tunisia the nationalist Destour Party threatened a one-day general strike this week in "mourning" for the 66-year-old tie with France. Destour Leader Salah Ben Youssef wants total independence, a Tunisia tied to the Arab League, and full membership in U.N. Sorbonne-trained, and often in French prisons for nationalist activity, Ben Youssef says: "In prison you have got nothing to do but think, and that is why we out-think the French...