Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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VICHY--Violent pan-Arab nationalist disorders allegedly spurred by foreign agents spread tonight throughout Syria where French troops, opening fire on rioting crowds, killed at least seven persons and wounded others...
...disorders gained headway with particular violence in the four largest cities of the French mandate territory as Arab leaders spurned the French Government's compromise offer for a settlement of the conflict by means of a local government reorganization...
Bloody clashes of Arab nationalists with armed French troops and police occurred during the day and schools and main bazars were reported to have been closed until complete order is restored...
...Newark, N. J. Widely traveled, he is especially fond of the Sahara Desert, where, he says, "you look at the horizon all day long and feel that you are staring at eternity." In Biskra he frequented the Algerian salon of Winston Churchill's cousin, Sculptress Clare Sheridan (Arab Interlude). Germany Must Perish! is his first book. "Strictly a one-man job" (he claims he has no organization, no help, no backers), it was worked on for four months. Then he founded the Argyle Press to publish...
...signs of wobbling into the Axis camp as Yugoslavia did (see p. 26). Turkish Cabinet members refused a German invitation to see the newsreel Victory in the West and civilians were ordered evacuated from Istanbul. To back up Turkey with what they hope will develop into a pan-Arab front, the British used as their mouthpiece the reliable Emir of Trans-Jordan, who likes the new Turkey as much as he disliked the old Ottoman Empire. From his winter camp at Eshuneh, Abdullah sat down to the international chessboard and proclaimed to the world...