Word: arabism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Arab nationalism and unification are inevitable. Protracted armed intervention by the West will culminate in calamity...
...situation, Press Secretary James Hagerty hurried into Ike's office with the news, just off the White House Teletype machines, that Khrushchev had accepted the idea of a summit-level Security Council meeting. India's Prime Minister Nehru should take part, said Khrushchev, and so should "the Arab countries concerned." As the place and time, Khrushchev suggested New York City five days thence. "The threat to world peace has reached a dangerous level," he wrote. "So much so that no time should be lost...
...power: i) Lebanon and nearby Jordan-buttressed by 2,000 British paratroops-were still untouched by the revolutionary fire in Iraq; 2) U.S. allies from Iceland to the Philippines got proof that the U.S. would deploy and fight if need be to save small friendly powers from subversion; 3) Arab nationalism, whether led by Nasser or not, had been shown that...
Furthermore, he continued, one cannot deal even with moderate forms of Arab nationalism. "Those advocating it are now being murdered and denounced as traitors." Kirk went on to say that these brutal tactics of Nasser's followers were "more primitive than anything from Nazi Germany during the worst days of Goebbels...
During the question period that followed, Kirk stated that although Egypt is not the sole center of Arab nationalism, it directs the movement and profits from the "facade of universalism" which conceals local self-interest...