Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the committee heard Jewish leaders argue for unrestricted Jewish immigration into Palestine, an occasional Arab argue against it.* Star witness was scientifically precise, politically fuzzy Dr. Albert Einstein. Gently he said that British policies had prevented Jewish-Arab collaboration. Smiling, he rejected the suggestion that he was anti-British. "The Irish," said he, "have suffered a long time under your rule. I have...
...Iraq Parliament last week received an ironic motion for the establishment of an Arab national home-in California...
...North Carolina Supreme Court Judge Walter P. Tracy, WLB Chairman Lloyd K. Garrison, Kansas State College President Milton Eisenhower (younger brother of General Ike). ¶ Appointed a six-man delegation, headed by Circuit Court Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson, of Houston, to an Anglo-American committee which will investigate the Arab-Jewish deadlock in Palestine. ¶ Paid a pre-Christmas visit to wounded veterans in the Bethesda Naval Hospital and the Army's Walter Reed Hospital. ¶ Put balding, affable Wilson Wyatt, ex-Mayor of Louisville, into the hot spot of U.S. housing expediter...
...more moderate Palestine Arab Party was satisfied with British action stopping Jewish immigration. The extremist Independence Arab Party favored immediate action against the Jews. In desperation, Mardam called in Iraq's Nuri Pasha, an old hand at settling Arab disputes. At week's end, negotiations broke down again...
Despite such fraternal strife among Arab and Jewish leaders, the peoples themselves still mingled in Jerusalem, a common holy place, on terms of surprising amity. They felt that, even if the current crisis exploded in civil war, Jew and Arab would continue to live together in Palestine for a long time...