Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...room filled with Franklin Roosevelt's family and friends, the top men of the U.S., representatives of the foreign world-the new President, Harry Truman, the cabinet, Britain's Anthony Eden, Russia's Andrei Gromyko, King Ibn Saud's son Emir Faisal, stately in an Arab burnoose. The pianist struck a chord, the mourners stood to sing the hymn, "Eternal Father, Strong to Save...
Mary Margaret did their last dusting. This week (after three Arab princes moved out) the Trumans moved into Blair House, the 135-year-old mansion in which the U.S. lodges visiting diplomats, heads of state, distinguished officials. Ahead, for calm, shy, friendly Bess Truman, lay the responsibilities of a President's wife; for both the First Lady and her daughter the glare of publicity. Newspapers immediately began to speculate on the chances of Mary Margaret eventually affording the capital the excitement of a White House wedding. After Eleanor Roosevelt had had time to pack, Bess and Mary Margaret Truman...
Back in August 1943, Jerusalem's Arab mayor, Mustapha Bey Khalidi, died in office. Jewish Councillor Daniel Auster automatically became acting mayor, pending a permanent appointment. Jews, constituting two-thirds of the city's population and taxpayers, demanded that Auster be confirmed. Arabs demanded that another Arab succeed the late lamented mayor...
...Occident also is concerned with the Arab world because in the Levant (Syria and Lebanon), France clings to shreds of empire, and will not give them up without a struggle which may well endanger world cooperation for the peace...
...millions of people in the Occident cannot forget the Arab world because it includes Palestine. Ibn Saud personifies and constantly bespeaks the Arab case for an all-Arab Palestine. The U.S. and British Governments are committed to a Jewish Palestine-not necessarily all-Jewish, but with too many Jews to suit the Arabs, who, having inhabited it for centuries, regard it as one of their lands...