Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another little Arab country-British-mandated Trans-Jordan, pop. 300,000-recently got restive, asked Britain to grant full sovereignty. Trans-Jordan's handsome, blueblooded Emir Abdullah had a telling point: with Britain's covert encouragement, neighboring Syria and Lebanon had lately wrested promises of sovereignty from France...
Trans-Jordan's petition was another sign of rising Arab nationalism. Full sovereignty would raise Emir Abdullah to the rank of King, allow Trans-Jordan to join the nebulous but much-discussed union of Arab states. Britain prefers to postpone such problems until she can concentrate on her vital Middle Eastern sphere...
...incisions [in] the loathsome yolks of eggs fried in boiling oil") Count Grandsailles was sent to Casablanca by the Vichy Government. Vichy thought he was loyal. But the Count was chiefly interested in planting more & more cork trees. "All I want," he told the admiring North Africans, "is an Arab revolt within 48 hours." "You shall have [it]," cried Communist Professor Brousillon, "but it may cost the lives of several Communists...
...censorship. Other details leaked out. All Balkan stories having political implications had to be sent to Cairo, and Cairo's British censor was notoriously heavyhanded. On Cairo's official taboo list: any story about the National Liberation Front inside Greece; full reports on the Jewish-Arab question...
Lawrence of. ... Wingate made his name in strange operations. Given the job of catching the Arab marauders who in 1937 were regularly cutting the Haifa-Mosul oil line, he mixed Jewish and British patrols, beat the Arabs at their own game of ambush, won the title of "Lawrence of Judea" (which his cousin, who fought for the Arabs, might have resented). In 1941, in the British campaign against the Italians in Ethiopia, Wingate directed a strategy of bluff, propaganda and native revolt. With 1,000 Sudanese and 2,000 Ethiopians, he effectively snarled up some 40,000 Italians...