Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confusion of Arab threat and British evasion that has followed publication of the report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, the un- or misinformed citizen is hard-put to choose a position of justice without stagnation. His leaders have failed him, failed to point out for the citizens of the world the path, at last discovered, to the solution of the Palestine problem...
...Committee of Inquiry into Palestine was established as a body designed to hear both sides of an issue too hot for one nation or even the UN to handle, and then to make a decision on the basis of its hearings. Arab, Jew, Briton, and American voiced approval of its purpose, its personnel, its methods; each rushed to present his side of the case. Yet publication of its report finds the Commission standing alone behind its proposals. Each contesting group is back in its own shell: violently opposed to the recommendations, ignoring them, or unwilling to do anything about them...
...conviction of Christ and of our own country's founders that our fellow men were our brothers and equals: but had you showed us how to love the man who still remained unconvinced? Could we fit into your gentle worlds of learning the treachery of desperate Arab urchins, the hauteur of allies hurt by unplanned insults, the greediness of Italian waifs in snatching scraps we refused, the hollow smiles of erstwhile enemies? Could we reconcile the fear we had at being shoved out to meet predestined missiles hurled by other cringing beings...
...left Trans-Jordan still tied to Britain by a fairly strong military and economic rope. Trans-Jordan was to provide facilities for the training and movement of British troops, and her communications were to be developed with British money and in consultation with British technicians. Trans-Jordan's Arab Legion (whose Desert Patrol is known locally as "Glubb's Girls") would still be trained and commanded by Britain's 48-year-old Arabophile John Bagot Glubb. He is known...
Part-Time Job. In spite of the strings attached, Emir Abdullah might feel that a lifetime of loyalty to Britain had at last been rewarded. As a young delegate to the Ottoman Parliament, he had urged his father Hussein, Sherif of Mecca, to team with the British in an Arab revolt against Ottoman overlordship. In World War I (in return for a promise of Arab independence) Abdullah fought against the Turks, side by side with Colonel Lawrence...