Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain also counted on a potential second Lawrence of Arabia, Major John Bagot Glubb, commandant of Trans-Jordan's independent Arab legions since 1930. The Arabs...
Ethiopia is no Arab-country, and far from wanting to raise a revolt among the Arabs who came mostly into Britain's sphere of influence after World War I, Britain wanted nothing so much as to keep them quiet. But various dialects of Arabic are the language of Egypt, the Sudan and Libya, as well as of the Asiatic shore. Furthermore, the Arabs are expert desert soldiers and might prove useful allies to the British in Libya and the Sudan, where roads are almost as scarce as railroads, and the chief highways are furrows in the sand worn...
...Relatively quiet during the last six months, the Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine was stirred up again early in March when the British Government...
...Tribune has a raven-haired reporter named Sonia Tomara touring the Near East. Most of last week she spent at Beirut, Syria, after inspecting Turkey and the Balkans. Reporter Tomara last week offered answers to the two key Near East questions. On No. 1 she reported flatly: "The Pan-Arab movement has, for the present at least, given way to a desire to see the Allies win the war. The Arabs understand only too well that the Nazis consider the Semites an inferior race...
...there were trouble in Palestine, there would be repercussions in Trans-Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and India," continued the Secretary. "... I must tell the House that we have had the sternest warnings in recent weeks that, despite appearances in Palestine, there was beneath the surface growing unrest in Arab villages and growing suspicion that the British Government was not sincere in its professions that it would protect Arab cultivators, peasants and laborers." At the end Secretary MacDonald received a rousing ovation, and a motion of nonconfidence, the first raised against the Government since the war began, was defeated...