Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middle East's biggest concentration of exiled terrorists and (depending on the point of view) troublemakers or patriots. In 1946 North African exiles set up the Committee for North African Liberation. The Egyptian government provided offices and funds for their support, had their representatives sit in on Arab League councils as advisers. Funds were raised, commandos recruited, trained and shipped off to the battlefronts...
...dependability of the British Exchequer for bondage to the Saudi royal family, blood enemies of his Hashemite clan? He seemed genuinely shocked by the uproar in Britain over the removal of Glubb, and sent personal word to Anthony Eden asking him to countermand the order withdrawing 15 of the Arab Legion's remaining British officers...
...London British military men confided to newsmen that the Eden government had made its move in the conviction that Israel and the Arab states will be at war within 90 days and that Cyprus must then be transformed into a vital military base. It would need a turn of events of this magnitude to justify what now Deemed to be one of the most muddleheaded decisions of Prime Minister Eden's indecisive tenure...
...they followed the Iraq Petroleum Co. pipeline eastward toward Teheran, open desert stretched for miles on either side, and there was no road of any kind, nothing but the pipeline to mark the route. Yet out of the blue came an Arab truck headed straight for the leading Land Rover, which hastily stopped. Swerving at the last moment, the Arab sideswiped it, tearing a rear fender, and drove on unconcerned...
...Communism's easy success in Syria is the weakness that has characterized all its governments since the French pulled out in 1946. Each has been subject to the sway of Damascus' fast-mobilizing street demonstrations. The Syrian army, penetrated by Communist influence, now backs the fellow-traveling Arab Socialist Resurrection Party, which noisily opposes Western policies. Syria is the only Arab country that has elected an avowed Communist to Parliament. Having long since shed the "independent" label under which he first campaigned, Deputy Khaled Bakdash last week headed back from the 20th Communist Party Congress in Moscow full...