Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...briefcases on the desks of the Resistance members were new and shiny. The old parliamentarians' briefcases were battered with use. A white-robed monk, a grey-haired Negro, a red-fezzed Arab and half a dozen women (where women never had a place before) were sprinkled through the Assembly. In the gallery sat U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, British Ambassador Alfred Duff Cooper, Russian Ambassador Alexander Bogomolov. On a front bench sat General de Gaulle...
...Jewish terrorists, there arrived a surprising ally-the Nazis. Three Luftwaffe officers parachuted by night, probably from Crete, into the stony wilderness west of the Jordan Valley. Their twofold mission: to hamper the British war effort, to discredit the Jewish cause. They were discovered a fortnight ago when Arab urchins reported that a low-flying plane had dropped a bag of British money. In a cave once frequented by medieval anchorites police arrested three husky Germans, confiscated their radio sets, machine guns, explosives, and 14 German-made maps of Palestine...
Nevertheless, Nahas had persuaded five Arab states* to unite politically, culturally, economically, and to issue a blunt Pan-Arab pronouncement that "the rights of Palestine Arabs could not be violated without the risk of disturbing peace in the Arab world...
Nahas' sudden dismissal would rock the new Pan-Arab League. There was a slight morning-after feeling as two other signatory Premiers - Syria's Saadallah El Jabry and Lebanon's Riadh El Solh-emplaned for home on "urgent business...
...Mainly because of the objections of the Christian Lebanese, who feared engulfment in an Arab bloc, the conference had for the present abandoned the smaller Greater Syria Federation designed to reunite Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Trans-Jordan (TIME...