Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with point. The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved the Eisenhower resolution virtually intact by a 24-to-2 vote, moved it toward the House floor, where overwhelming approval is expected. But the committee report also noted that the resolution failed to meet such "basic"' Middle Eastern problems as Arab-Israeli relations, the Suez Canal dilemma, and the handling of Arab refugees. The House, said the committee, should get on with the business of adopting the Eisenhower resolution-and then should receive from the Administration "positive and comprehensive measures for dealing with the fundamental problems of the Middle East...
...thus began at last to work his way out of the dead-end U.N. legalism that Nasser had been the unoffending victim of aggression, and the U.N.'s only responsibility was not to reward aggression. Hammarskjold had to operate within the mandate of the Assembly, where the Arab-Asian bloc, when joined by the Communists, can muster up to 36 out of 80 votes. He suggested that if Israel withdrew to the 1949 armistice line, it might be possible to enforce the 1949 agreement against another violation: that of Egypt's aggressive sealing off of the Gulf...
...Saudis are still there. The Israelis watch edgily from across a 330-mile border, and at some future date might not mind advancing to the Jordan River, a natural frontier some 30 miles east from the present boundary, if they thought they could get away with it. The unceasing Arab nationalist agitation among Jordan's large Palestinian refugee population has moved young King Hussein to offer to give up his throne if that would advance the cause of Arab unity. Admitting that "Jordan cannot live forever as Jordan," Premier Suleiman Nabulsi two months ago called for federation with other...
...that he had counsel to give. Former Secretary of the Navy Robert Anderson was dispatched on a hush-hush trip to Riyadh. Baud's counsel: Western intransigence was forcing Nasser into the arms of the Communists. Simultaneously. Saud began a gingerly effort to organize a loose association of Arab leaders which, while not opposing Nasser, still called for restraint. Saud found common cause for unity even with his old Hashemite enemy, King Feisal of Iraq, in their shared irritation at Nasser's expansive talk of "Arab oil" when, in fact, it was Iraq and Saudi...
...being left out. With Saud about to arrive, he hastily called his ally, Premier Sabri el Assali of Syria. Young King Hussein flew over from Jordan. Nasser's purpose: to talk them into replacing the subsidy Britain has for so long paid Jordan to support its Arab legion and base troops there. Nasser obviously feared that, with U.S. help under the Eisenhower doctrine. Saud might do it alone, forming a U.S.-backed partnership with Jordan that had no place for Nasser. It took Nasser hours of talk, including a two-hour session with Saud alone, before agreement came. Reportedly...