Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Noninterference means "not interfering with Communist expansion. Nasser was mad at Khrushchev because he had promised noninterference in Arab affairs. He shouldn't have been. Khrushchev was using the Soviet meaning...
Forget Nasser. The State Department and the British Foreign Office, not yet abandoning all hope of Kassem, put Kassem's action down to his desire to express solidarity with the Arab world. By withdrawing from the pact, Kassem freed himself from Nasser's accusation that Iraq was still allied to the "imperialist" West. To his assembled editors last week, Kassem suggested: "Forget Nasser. Do not waste time replying to criticism from abroad that does not bother...
...plain that Nasser was getting himself committed to the downfall of Kassem, and to the Communists who surround him. Last week Nasser made the sternest accusation one Arab can make about another: that Kassem was "soft" on the Jews, having refused (said Nasser) to join in a "decisive battle" against Israel last fall. And at Cairo's 1,000-year-old Al Azhar University, world center of Islamic learning, the rector or "sheik of Islam" urged the Iraqi faithful "to rise as one man" in defense against Communism's alien and atheist threat to the faith...
...Lebanon. There, protected by tanks and antiaircraft guns, he met Lebanon's President Fuad Chehab for the first time. Reported gist of their agreement: Chehab would back Nasser in his dispute with Iraq if Nasser guaranteed that he would not try to incorporate Lebanon into his United Arab Republic...
...shown to be patriotism, not nymphomania, for she and Nessim are smuggling arms into Palestine. Nessim believes that only the creation of a strong Jewish state will save the isolated minorities of the Middle East-Copts, Greeks, Armenians, Jews-from "being gradually engulfed by the Arab tide...