Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Effendis and fellahin gossiped excitedly about the news, wondered if Nationalist Nahas Pasha's dismissal might be connected with the Pan-Arab conference, which wound up its sessions in Alexandria last week. Nahas's downfall had come just a day after his triumphant radio message to the Arab peoples of the Middle East. Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Trans-Jordan, he announced, had agreed to join a League of Independent Arab States "to achieve the welfare of all Arab countries and safeguard their independence against all aggression." Had Pan-Arabia been born at last...
Observers noted with surprise that the Pan-Arab agreement covered not only education, finance, trade and law, but, unexpectedly, Arab foreign policy, which has hitherto mostly been a British preserve. No Arab state would be permitted to conclude a treaty with a foreign power "contrary to general Arab policy or the interests of any Arab State." Was the foreign power Britain, which has extensive treaty relations with the Arab states? Would Britain acquiesce...
Prudence Before Presence. But not all the Arab states had yet agreed to the League. Saudi Arabia and Yemen had not come in. Saudi Arabia's far-sighted Ibn Saud and Yemen's prudent Iman Yahya had sent no delegates to Alexandria, only "observers"-two elderly sheiks taking a seaside cure. They had not signed...
...year-old Arab girl had no business to be still alive : when Captain W. W. Wilson of the Royal Army Medical Corps first saw her, she had been shot in the abdomen eight days before and the wide wound, leaking intestinal contents, was untended except for a packing of tow, a dressing of mud and torn clothing. Ordinarily, such an untreated wound means peritonitis (infection of the abdominal lining) and almost inevitable death. Yet the girl had not even a fever...
Your statement in TIME (Aug. 28) that "The Arab peoples still had done next to nothing to win favors at the peace table" is most unfair. You seem to have forgotten that Iraq, an Arab country, has declared war on the Axis Powers voluntarily, and has since contributed in every way to the war effort. It is a base for our Allies, and all the country's economy, manpower, communication, and transportation have been used to defeat the common enemy. The people have endured all hardships without complaint...