Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moral Ramparts. To get the Middle East stabilized, the U.S. backed the Canadian plan for a 6,000-man U.N. police force. With careful forethought the President had held strongly that this police force should be recruited only from volunteer small powers so that 1) Arab-Asians would not be able to cry colonialism; 2) Russians would not be able to demand inclusion to balance any contingent from the U.S. Shortly after the U.N. General Assembly endorsed the police force (64-0), Eisenhower, with U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold's approval, ordered U.S. military transports to pick...
...Hungarian people cries vengeance to the Lord." The United Nations General Assembly, having already voted, in vain, to send a commission of inquiry into Hungary, voted overwhelmingly to promote large-scale relief for Hungary's victims, and voted decisively (48-11, with 16 abstentions, mostly all Arab-Asian) to indict Russia for its "intolerable" acts of repression...
...that 24 Russian-manned MIG-17s, accompanied by Soviet transports bringing technicians, radar and ground equipment, had landed in Syria. This report fitted in with the recent visit to Russia of Syrian President Shukri el Kuwatly, whose government and army are more thickly infested with Communists than any other Arab state. His was no casual visit. His wife, his daughter, his Foreign Minister and staff. Minister of Defense. Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Propaganda and the manager of the Central Bank of Syria had flown to the Crimea with an escort of Soviet fighter planes. They returned last week with...
...months, the only case he could see in the Middle East was whatever would lead to dumping Nasser. In his difference with Dulles over Suez. Dulles again and again made the point that the West, as the canal's users, must impress the Arab world that its long-range interests lay with the West, and if the Arabs wanted the West's capital and technical aid they must have the West's confidence. Eden could see only one need. All his plans were aimed at bringing about Nasser's downfall, and he refused to look beyond...
...Russia, ran amok in the Middle East." Eden's Foreign Office had apparently not had the political word. The Foreign Office told inquiring reporters that stories of massive Russian moves came from Russian propaganda, which was systematically exaggerating what Russia has done or will do for its Arab friends...