Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Selwyn Lloyd held confidential briefings for selected British, European and U.S. diplomatic correspondents (periodicals critical of the Suez policy, such as the Economist and the Observer, were not invited), in which he suggested that 1) the U.S. appeared to be willing to throw down the British alliance for the Arab-Asians; 2) British diplomats were having trouble getting to see U.S. diplomats, 3) the U.S. was threatening the British economy by not sending over U.S. oil until the British announced plans to quit Suez...
...weeks' time this country is going to wake up to the fact that we have marched into Egypt, marched out of Egypt, caused the canal to be blocked, stopped our oil, made every Arab in the world into an enemy, opened the Middle East to Russian penetration, split the Commonwealth, quarreled with the Americans, ruined ourselves-all for nothing...
...sandy reaches that in a lusher day were known as the Fertile Crescent (see map). There sit three nations-Syria, Iraq and Jordan-whose borders were drawn largely by the British, largely on sand. Last week, with Britain's last shreds of authority being blown away, these three Arab states were exposed in all their perishability to the full blast of nationalist bent and Soviet propaganda...
Internal sentiments in both countries reenforce the major political forces. In Syria, long-nurtured anti-West popular resentment supports Saraj and his pro-Nassar position. In Iraq, popular sentiment stands behind el-Said, and his dream of Arab unity under Iraqui, pro-Western leadership...
...favorable to the West. In the present crisis, it would seem, American policy should pursue the complementary goals of preventing Seraj from seizing formal control in Syria, and preserving and buttressing the el-Said regime in Iraq. If either of these objectives is not realized, Russia could gain the Arab foothold she seeks to step from Egypt to other areas of the Middle East...