Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nobody tries it." Later, over a card-table dinner of "roofed fish" (a Baghdad speciality) in Nuri's home, the old strongman told more about himself than the West has ever heard before. For the Arabian Nights' story of the Iraqi strongman, Nuri asSaid, a blue-eyed Arab, see FOREIGN NEWS, The Pasha...
What had brought about this revival from the dead? For one, an increased Arab concern over Egypt's President Nasser and his involvement with Russia. For another, the slow recognition that the Eisenhower Doctrine is genuinely intended to help the Middle Eastern nations to preserve their independence and viability. With Saudi Arabia's King Saud shifting his considerable weight to the side of his fellow kings in Iraq and Jordan, the four Moslem pact countries suddenly found that they could safely reassert their common concern against the Communist threat and their membership in a useful instrumentality that...
Nuri, as he returned from Karachi, was a man who had recovered from his Suez crisis. The only Arab leader who has formally allied his country with the West, he found himself isolated last October when his chief partner, Britain, attacked (simultaneously with the hated Israelis) the biggest figure in Arab politics. Then, in the fury of Arab nationalism, it had seemed that Nuri and not Egypt's Nasser might be the one to fall. Now it was Nasser who had to fear isolation. Nuri was on top, and could survey his victory. In his hour of triumph...
...dominant figure in Iraq. But he knew that Iraq's boy king, Feisal II, would ask him to try again, and Nuri would have a chance to form a new government, with a widened Cabinet. In office or out, the adroit, 68-year-old Nuri is the senior Arab statesman of the Middle East, and the Middle East's strongest pro-Western statesman...
Syria may not be to blame for everything troublesome in the Middle East these days, but it tries to help when it can. Nasser's only devoted ally in the Arab world, and Communist-infiltrated to a degree that Egypt is not, Syria is finding itself unpopular on every one of its borders. The Syrians dislike the Turks to the north only a little less than they hate the Israelis on the south. They quarrel bitterly with the pro-Western Iraqis on their east. And last week, after Syria had glumly withdrawn its 4,000 troops from Jordan...