Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bourguiba and the King, scheduled to fly to the U.S. this week to visit President Eisenhower (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), had agreed to put their good offices at the "disposal of France and the Algerian National Liberation Front" to negotiate "sovereignty for the Algerian people." Bourguiba sententiously cited an old Arab proverb: "When a house is on fire, the neighbors' duty...
...Arab leaders presented a sharp contrast: Mohammed in flowing white robes. Bourguiba in striped pants, morning coat and red fez. Outside the council room, shabby in worn mackintoshes, hovered two leaders of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN), Belkacem Krim and Abdelhafid Boussouf...
...secretary general is making the trip in an effort to ease new Arab-Israeli tensions which have developed in the last two weeks
...hastily called press conference, Hussein dropped all pretense of Arab brotherhood, declared flatly: "There is no doubt Egypt and Syria are just instruments of international Communism." Ten months ago Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia agreed to pay Jordan $35 million a year to replace the subsidy once supplied by Britain, but only Saudi Arabia has fulfilled its promise. "The agreement is not worth the paper it is written on," said Hussein. Next day he took off for the desert to celebrate his 22nd birthday with a picnic and duck shoot...
Nasser's campaign of hate finally seemed to be backfiring. Where a word from Radio Cairo was once enough to start a riot, Nasser's rantings produced not a murmur among Jordan's 500,000 Palestinian Arab refugees, and scores of refugee leaders trooped to the palace to pledge their loyalty. If Nasser's campaign had been designed to frighten Iraq's King Feisal or Saudi Arabia's Saud as a demonstration of what could be done to them, it failed even more miserably. Instead, it brought fresh evidence of the growing isolation...