Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Iran (pop. 21,146,000). Like Turkey, a Moslem-but not an Arab-state. Three years ago the country was falling into anarchy after Britain's failure to negotiate a fair Anglo-Iranian oil deal. A weepy Mossadegh (TIME, Jan. 7, 1952) tried to rule from a hospital cot, and Iran was in danger of a Communist coup. That danger is safely past. Iran's Premier is a former ambassador to, and a good friend of, the U.S. The 37-year-old Shah now has firm control of his country, and on a recent trip to Moscow ably...
Iraq (pop. 5,200,000) is the only Arab member of the anti-Communist Baghdad Pact. Egypt's chief rival for Arab leadership, Iraq was until recently counted a British preserve. Tough old Nuri es-Said, Iraq's strongman, is Britain's best Arab friend in the area, but under pressure of nationalists 1) announced publicly, after the Suez invasion, that Iraq will boycott all Baghdad Pact meetings attended by Britain, 2) told the U.S. privately that if he is to survive he must disengage from the British. Rich oil reserves, well spent on long-range development...
Lebanon (pop. 1,425,000). Smallest Arab country, officially half Christian and half Moslem, the cultural and commercial center of the Arab Levant. Pro-U.S., and less hostile to Israel than any other neighboring state, Lebanon alone among the Arabs has so far refused to break diplomatic relations with Britain or France...
Israel (pop. 1,748,000). Dependent on U.S. private and public funds for one-third of its government expenditures. At the moment France is its closest ally, linked by equal dislike of the Arabs. Israel has most stable and most democratic government in the area, a victory-flushed army probably capable of defeating all Arab nations together. Last week, having withdrawn their ambassador, the Russians sent Israel a stiff note questioning its "existence" as a state. Without formal allies, Israel now finds it necessary to stand as close...
...foreshadowing the end of the $25 million British subsidy. Its Harrow-educated King Hussein, 21, is pro-British; its newly elected parliament is rabidly nationalist and leftist; its youthful, pro-Nasser army boss made a military pact with Egypt and Syria just before the invasion of Egypt. But the Arab Legion, now called the Jordanian army, is no longer the trim fighting force British commanders once made of it. Chaotic Jordan may turn out to be the next land fought over. Today, it is anybody's pigeon (except Britain...