Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Glubb Pasha must have had his head buried in the Middle East sands for 25 years if his dismissal from the Arab Legion came as a shock to him. I've been in the Middle East only four years, and it came as no surprise...
...tension and threat of violence hanging over the Arab world last week got much too personal for two of our reporters. Paris Correspondent William McHale, covering the unrest in North Africa (see FOREIGN NEWS), was caught out after curfew one night near Algiers. Stopped by Senegalese troops with fixed bayonets, McHale was prodded off to the commissariat by a young French machine gunner with an itchy finger. When the correspondent showed his press pass, the nervous Frenchman snapped:"That doesn't mean a thing-this is war!" At the commissariat, luckily, cooler heads prevailed: McHale was released after...
...position in the Middle East. Reports of Egyptian officers training in Poland, of heavy shipments of Soviet arms brought renewed doubts that the stubbornly held policy of declining an arms race was serving its purpose. With Communist arms, Premier Abdel Gamal Nasser's vaunted dream of creating an Arab empire to thrust the West from the Middle East and North Africa as well, seemed suddenly pore reality than paper threat...
...three big Western powers moved to concert policies elsewhere in the Mediterranean. Premier Guy Mollet urged that the Big Three Foreign Ministers meet in Paris to discuss Middle East policies, suggested that the time was coming to ask for a U.N. embargo on the sale of arms either to Arab or Jew. Britain warned both sides that it would take "swift military action" if war broke out across the tense IsraeliArab borders. The U.S. asked...
Last week this bleak land was the pivot and focus for all the tensions of the Middle East. Its 500,000 Arab refugees were the area's most corrosive concentration of hatred for Israel. Its Arab Legion was the Middle East's finest force, whose allegiance could sharply tilt the whole area's precarious balance. Egypt wooed it and played venomously on the bitterness of its refugees. The British, swallowing their pride, strove to maintain their slipping hold on this onetime docile ward...