Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Party, who was exiled by the French 18 years ago. Last week, despite France's belated granting of independence to Sultan ben Youssef, rebels in Morocco's Rif Mountains fought on, reportedly at El Fassi's command, while El Fassi himself flew to Madrid to discuss Arab claims on Spanish Morocco...
France is not the only target of Nasser's artful efforts. There is a group from Aden that plots busily at cafe tables against British rule there. Iraq (Egypt's chief Arab rival) caught an Egyptian army officer masquerading as an Egyptian embassy butler and convicted him of conspiracy. In neighboring and impoverished Libya, where the U.S. has a big air base. Egyptian Ambassador Ahmed Hassan el Faki connives busily with his good friend Russian Ambassador Nikolai Generaloff to root Western influence out of the country. In the words of one correspondent, they are "closer than worms...
...Nasser's chief instrument of propaganda is the Voice of the Arabs. On four wave lengths, the Voice pours out a stream of stirring Arab songs, inflammatory news summaries and incendiary comment with the hypnotic insistence of a kind of political muezzin. It alleges "imperialist" plots, fictitious massacres, Zionist "conspiracies." It recommends riots in Jordan, rebellion in Morocco, revenge in Algeria. Blaring from loudspeakers in cafes and hovels throughout the Middle East, it is for a vast number of illiterate Arabs the only news they get. By relay stations up the Nile, it also aims at all Africa, beaming...
Nasser's Arab underground makes its appeal to a universal distaste for colonialism. But the struggle for freedom is one thing; campaigns of terror against the moderates who try to negotiate that freedom is another. Nasser's agitators have scored a certain success, but so far it is principally the all too easy success of destruction...
...have all heard that the pen is mightier than the sword," writes Lieut. General Sir John Bagot Glubb, recently sacked commander of Jordan's Arab Legion, "but we do not seem really to have taken it to heart." Deprived of his sword by the young King of Jordan, whose family he had served since 1930, Glubb last week in Surrey, England, took...