Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jews and Arabs both knew that the Zionist outlaws were hitting at Britain's pro-Arab policy. The British knew it, too, but their first concern was to hold their place in the oil-rich, strategically important Arab world of the Middle East. Tensely all factions awaited a crucial decision: whether the British, Mr. Roosevelt's implied promise notwithstanding (TIME, March 20), would soon stop Jewish immigration to Palestine, as provided in the famed White Paper...
...Item: the President's encouragement of the Zionists-to the dismay not only of Britain but of seven Arab states. The M.P.s failed to note that the President's actions last week were quite different from his talk...
Welcome. In the King's richly decked tent the Generals got a royal welcome. Ibn Saud liked the Lend-Lease pretties, gave a little Lend-Lease-in-Reverse: to each visitor an Arab costume, headgear and all; to the Generals, jewel-studded swords; to their aides, watches and daggers. The monarch, according to old Arab custom, pressed his guests to stay at least three days. But the Generals were not on vacation. Two hours after their arrival they said farewell, climbed aboard their modern magic carpet, turned Cairoward...
...impact of this little resolution on the Arab-speaking Near East was that of a Turkish earthquake. For one thing it came at a critical time: on March 31. Jewish immigration into Palestine (which began under the 26-year-old Balfour Declaration) will end under the British White Paper...
From Iraq's Senate and Chamber of Deputies came furious protest: [The resolution] would strengthen the efforts of Axis propagandists to persuade the Arab peoples . . . that the American Government . . . [has] no sympathy with Arab peoples. . . . Any increase in Jewish immigration into Palestine would eventually result in bloodshed...