Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearer a final soluton today than it was two months or two years ago, the Palestine crisis still awaits firm and honest British action. The partition plan that was presented this fall has been dropped by Whitehall after both Jews and Arabs refused to accept either part or all of the proposal. Jewish circles envisioned little merit in any "autonomous" Jewish State in Palestine that would be unable to fix its own immigration quotas and thus determine its own destiny. The Arabs, (although it is doubtful that the extremely vocal land-owning Arab spokesmen represent real Arab sentiment), have often...
...fact, and in the face of strong verbal resistance to their proposal, Britain has back-tracked and now presents a new plan which might have been adequate two years ago, but which today merely exudes a weary self-interest. It calls for the creation of two semi-autonomous States. Arab and Jewish, subject to over-all British authority. No specific boundaries would be set--the areas of the States would be decided upon by the majority of the population in the particular section. Jewish immigration would be upped from its present 1,500 per month figure to 100,000 every...
...many homes have rickety, poorly insulated "afterthought" plumbing, laid along outside walls). London's News Chronicle carried a cartoon depicting two Englishmen viewing an icicle-hung pipe above the caption: "If burst pipes were good enough for my dear father, they're good enough for me." Arab delegates conferring with Ernie Bevin on Palestine (see below) found it too cold even before the huge fireplaces of St. James's Palace and hastily moved to Ernie's less drafty official residence in Carlton Gardens...
...minor, nerve-scraping chant of Arab women on Egypt's Independence...
Said King Abdullah: "The Turks and the Arabs are neighbors and brothers who for centuries .. . shaped the history of the East. The day will come when they will unite again and serve the Orient to shine once more." But one chair was conspicuously empty at the feast. Syria's Minister, Ihsan Elsherif, had providentially absented himself. King Abdullah nimbly sidestepped the misunderstanding between Turkey and Arab Syria, which forms the chief bar to Arab-Turk unity. "Turkey and Syria are neighbors," he said, "much more qualified to understand the situation than myself...