Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soldier to Proconsul. In 1937 Wavell returned to the Near East as commander in chief in Palestine and Transjordan, largely stamped out the bloody Jewish-Arab riots. In 1939, he assumed command of the British forces in Egypt. World War II swelled his Egyptian garrison into the Imperial Army of the Nile, an amorphous instrument which he painstakingly fashioned into a weapon that drove the Italians out of Cyrenaica. It was a famous victory at a time when Britain, standing singlehanded against the Axis might, was staggering under successive defeats. For the first time the name of Wavell was heard...
...Arabs and Frenchmen in the Levant were on edge. At a soccer game in Hama an Arab crowd began yelling "Pas de goal" ("Block that kick"). Sensitive Frenchmen thought they heard "A has De Gaulle" ("Down with De Gaulle"). That did it. Rioting spread from Hama to Horns and then to Damascus. The wild Djebel Druse country rose. Last week the trouble between Arabs and Frenchmen in the Levant (TIME, June 4) suddenly became the world's trouble...
...three days the filthy, ancient city shook as shell after shell poured into some of the most congested areas on earth. Hundreds of Arab dead lay in the bazaars and narrow streets. Shells hit the overstaffed Russian legation, the Syrian Parliament building, the plush Orient Palace Hotel. A U.S.-built Baltimore bomber flew overhead, dropped a few bombs. After the Senegalese had done their work with machineguns and mortars, they pillaged the shops and bazaars, taking radios, scarce food and scarcer clothing...
...Syria and The Lebanon rushed the new Pan-Arab League. An emergency meeting was called for early June to decide what...
France or the Arabs? Which side-France or the Arabs-would Great Britain, the No. 1 Near East power, support? Until 1943, she had encouraged Syrians and Lebanese to break their French ties. Last year Britain changed her mind, reportedly because of the growing strength of Russia. Last week, the British Foreign Office, in one of its rare public statements, simultaneously "regretted" the French troop transfer and the Pan-Arab League's attitude. To both parties Britain offered her good offices as mediator. Neither accepted...