Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Bourguiba's government accepted an offer of arms from Egypt's Nasser, even though Bourguiba himself has long resented Nasser's internal intriguing in French North Africa on behalf of Cairo-centered Arab nationalism. Within three days of taking Nasser's arms, President Bourguiba was able to inform his people that the U.S. had decided to help Tunisia get arms. They would be "Western arms, whether from Italy or elsewhere," he said, and they would arrive by October...
Last week's touching of hands by Arabs who basically are quarreling with one another was the result of the U.S. State Department's ill-advised attempt publicly to isolate and quarantine Syria from its neighbors (TIME, Sept. 23). All Arab friends of the U.S. had to show Syria that they would have no part of such a maneuver. And so last week Damascus was treated to the first diplomatic visit by an Iraqi Premier (Ali Jawdat, the summer replacement of Strongman Nuri asSaid) since 1949. The most elaborate gesture of all was the visit to Syria...
...Defense Minister Khaled el Azm, the man who negotiated the Syrian-Soviet army deal. Azm had once accused Saud of being a friend of Israel and a tool of imperialists, and this the King would not forgive. Azm is an example of the kind of confused Arab nationalist that the Russians are doing so well with these days. At a recent banquet greeting a Russian delegation, Azm praised his startled guests by proclaiming, "The Soviet Union has fought Communism in our country...
Israel's ambiguity towards Russia stems from mingled hopes and fears about the Jews in Russia. Even though Moscow has elected to plunge heavily on the Arab side in the Middle East, it is still not averse to playing a double game between Arabs and Jews. Just before the Youth Festival, Nikita Khrushchev told a Western visitor: "If the Israelis agreed to follow a policy of neutralism, and if the U.S. called off the cold war in the Middle East, perhaps we would open our gates and let the Jews leave...
Returning to Switzerland, dead broke but ahum with ideas, Leopold was unable to persuade strait-laced local authorities to set him up in a municipal casino, and was soon seeking out more adventurous governments. Last January, learning that arms were being smuggled from Switzerland to Arab terrorists in Algeria, Geneva cops pounced on four men about to board a plane for Tripoli, with suitcases loaded with dynamite. One of the four was enterprising Marcel Leopold...