Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prestige of the ruler of Islam's heartland and of the world's richest oil lands, reinforced by a resplendent reception in Washington. After regal stops in Spain and North Africa, he wall head toward Nasser's Cairo. There the two leaders of the Arab world will meet-with their allies President Kuwatly of Syria and King Hussein of Jordan-to hear of Saud's magic-carpet travels...
...four weeks since Saud and Nasser last met, there has been a perceptible shifting of opinion in the Arab world. Most of it is away from Nasser. The sophisticated among Arab politicians now see that, despite his victory claims, Nasser took a humiliating beating in Sinai. Furthermore, Arab business communities are increasingly upset by Nasser's disruption of the oil industry, are aware that he was imperiling all of their economies by his dealings with Russia, and fear that he may still be at it. Significantly, Arab leaders are trending away from Nasser on their own initiative...
Evil Designs. Saud himself had hedged carefully, but Beirut's Nahar concluded categorically: "King Saud has chosen America," and quoted Saud as having told Lebanon's Foreign Minister Charles Malik in Washington: "I am convinced that the future of the Arab world must be founded on its friendship with America...
...Jordan, that wide space in the desert which has little reason for nationhood, the noisily Nationalist government has been losing steam. Young (21) King Hussein a fortnight ago wrote Premier Suleiman Nabulsi bluntly: "We now detect the danger of Communist infiltration in our Arab homeland, and the threat posed by those who feign loyalty to Arab nationalism, indulge in hullabaloo, prevarications, falsehood and heroics, thereby seeking to conceal their evil designs against Arab nationalism and the fact that they cooperate with our enemies in misleading the masses and exploiting the people...
...victors," exulted France's U.N. Assembly Delegate Jacques Soustelle. The General Assembly, brushing off Arab demands that the French be ordered to negotiate with the Algerian rebels, had unanimously voted a mild resolution expressing the hope that a solution might be found in Algeria consistent with the principles of the U.N. Charter...