Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past vacations, President Eisenhower has always kept in close telephone touch with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. This time he did not talk to Dulles, despite the revolution in Indonesia, the realignment of Arab powers in, the Mideast and the critical problem of U.S.-British mediation between France and Tunisia (see FOREIGN NEWS). On past vacations, Cabinet members have shuttled to and from Washington to see Ike. This time none visited the vacation point...
...message to Feisal expressing the hope that the union of Iraq and Jordan would hasten the day of "great unity" -at the same time that his propagandists were denouncing the whole thing as "a new farce" engineered by "the same traditional feudal opportunists who have nothing in common with Arab nationalism and Arab aspiration...
...Rivalry. Inevitably, the two new unions had set up a rivalry in the Middle East that the world could not avoid. Both would need aid to survive. The two members of the United Arab Republic have been Soviet clients. Jordan and Iraq are oriented to the West. Both were bidding for support of the Arab world, for themselves, and, inescapably, for their patrons...
...advance that bid, Iraq may still consider withdrawal from the Baghdad Pact. As the northern tier of states united to resist Soviet pressure, the pact has always been viable; it would lose little military cohesion if Iraq withdrew. In its second purpose-organizing the Arab Middle East-the pact has been a failure: far from lining up the Arabs, it has isolated Iraq, the sole Arab member, under a cloud of nationalist distrust...
Early Life. Born Aug. 3, 1903, and reared in the ancient Carthaginian fishing port of Monastir, youngest of eight, grandson of an Arab nationalist who was a leader in a 19th century revolt against oppressive taxes. Educated at French lycées in Tunis, the Faculty of Law and School of Political Science in Paris (where he read Victor Hugo and argued about the Rights of Man). Married Mathilde Lorrain, a Frenchwoman he met in Paris. They have one son, Habib Jr., now Tunisia's Ambassador to Italy...