Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that room, all week long, the Arab League's trouble shooter, little, egg-shaped Djamil Mardam Bey, his tufty white hair mussed and his horn-rimmed glasses damp with perspiration, had held conferences with representatives of the Arabs' six parties, trying to form a committee to direct Arab political activities. The delegates had marched up the marble stairs with backs straight and with eyes flashing. They had scuttled down muttering expletives...
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Faced with critical decisions, the Arab League Council prepared to meet in Cairo this week, the Zionist Organization executive council in Jerusalem the following week. Three British divisions were standing...
Majority or Minority. To anxious Arabs and Jews this development held important corollaries which Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin candidly underlined in London. Said he: "We never undertook to establish a Jewish state [in Palestine], but we did undertake to establish a Jewish home, and that we must fulfill." Bevin had taken his stand on a literal interpretation of the 1917 Balfour Declaration ("The establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people . . ."). Said an Arab spokesman in Cairo: "We are happy, but we can't afford to show...
Both were wrong. Next day Cairo's crooked streets spawned more trouble. More stores, Arab as well as foreign, were looted, and synagogues in Cairo and Alexandria were set afire. Doughty Premier Nokrashy Pasha personally seized two pillagers by the scruff of the neck, had them arrested. By the second nightfall more than 1,000 persons had been jailed in Cairo alone, many of them for looting...