Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the U.S. intends "to isolate Egypt by forming a Mediterranean alliance consisting of a number of North African states, with Spain as its center." Actually, U.S. plans were considerably less grand than that. Washington's Middle East Expert Loy Henderson had been sent off to consult with Arab rulers and the Turks largely because the Turks, in particular, thought that the U.S. was taking too complacent an attitude about Syria. The U.S. is intent on staying in the background and keeping an Arab label on any anti-Syrian moves. But it is speeding arms deliveries...
...natives, where pimps and petty thieves dart about labyrinthian alleyways, secret passages and connecting rooftops. It is also a prime hideout for terrorists of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). From its recesses they fan out to plant bombs, stab and shoot, wreaking vengeance on Frenchman and moderate Arab alike. So far this year their bombs have killed 47 civilians, wounded 263 others; as a result, anyone now entering a bus. store or cinema in Algiers is automatically searched for arms or bombs...
With Britain's Baghdad Pact ally, Iraq, as spokesman, the Arab states argued in the Security Council that Oman was independent territory, and British troops and planes had no business there. Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon replied that under the 1920 Treaty of Sib (which the British have never published), the Imam, "a religious leader," had won a measure of autonomy, but that the Sultan was still sovereign over all of Muscat and Oman, and that therefore Britain was within its rights in answering his plea for help. The British pointed out tellingly that none of the Arab...
...vote of 5 to 4, the Security Council tabled the Arab complaint. After satisfying itself in the corridors that the Arab motion could not pass, the U.S. abstained. Officially, the U.S. pleaded the need of more information, but actually the State Department straddled in the hope of not antagonizing either of two friends, Britain or Saudi Arabia. Beforehand, the State Department had been sufficiently disturbed by Caccia's warnings to ask its own London embassy to predict whether, as Caccia implied, there would be an anguished British outcry against the U.S. for abstaining. The U.S. embassy estimate was that...
While Foreign Minister Christian Pineau flew off to enlist support for the idea in six South American capitals and Washington, the Arabs said that they are interested in hearing only one word-independence-and that each day without it widens the gap between Arab and Frenchman, drives moderate Arabs to relentless choices, and makes more difficult an eventual reconciliation in peace...