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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stomach." The "notorious collaborator"-exiled by the Allies for winking his pouchy eyes at the Axis (TIME, May 24, 1943)-enjoyed full liberty, was fawned upon by a score of wives, a large retinue including a court jester. To cap it all, he was campaigning for reinstatement as Bey of Tunis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TUNISIA: Professional Conscience | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

Tunisia's nationalist Labor Federation was sabotaging the French "imperialist" commonwealth wherever possible, threatened to paralyze the Government's broadened colonial program with a three-day strike, fomented Arab demonstrations for the Bey's return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TUNISIA: Professional Conscience | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

Last week 52 nationalist agitators were jailed. Unjailed leaders announced that they were drafting a "white paper" to prove that the Bey had never collaborated that he had been illegally deposed: since he is a legitimate monarch, the Bey can be deposed "only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TUNISIA: Professional Conscience | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...that room, all week long, the Arab League's trouble shooter, little, egg-shaped Djamil Mardam Bey, his tufty white hair mussed and his horn-rimmed glasses damp with perspiration, had held conferences with representatives of the Arabs' six parties, trying to form a committee to direct Arab political activities. The delegates had marched up the marble stairs with backs straight and with eyes flashing. They had scuttled down muttering expletives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Night in Jerusalem | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

...right with right." Prodded by President Truman's blunt request for the immediate admission of 100,000 Jews to Palestine, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin conferred with Reuven Zaslani, chief of the Jewish Agency, and with the new Arab League's Secretary-General Abdel Rahman Azzam Bey. Afterward, both breathed fire. Said Zaslani: in the event of bloodshed, "the Jews in Palestine will regard it as their fight." Said Azzam Bey: "The time has come when we must fight if necessary to save ourselves from the Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Unholy Crisis | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

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