Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jewish state [in Palestine], but we did undertake to establish a Jewish home, and that we must fulfill." Bevin had taken his stand on a literal interpretation of the 1917 Balfour Declaration ("The establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people . . ."). Said an Arab spokesman in Cairo: "We are happy, but we can't afford to show...
After a year in New York and Washington, Linen was sent overseas to inspect and coordinate O.W.I.'s outposts in the Eastern Mediterranean and India. For eight months he shuttled around among Algiers, Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, and New Delhi - then came home for a brief stint in O.W.I.'s Washington headquarters...
Orgy in Egypt. Two days later the Arabs struck in Egypt, a country noted for its tolerance of minorities. In Cairo, Alexandria and other towns, anti-Zionist demonstrations ended as indiscriminate orgies of looting, rioting, burning. Cairo's one-day toll: several dead, 230 injured (including 90 Egyptian policemen). In Alexandria another 200 were hurt. In both cities scores of foreign stores were damaged. Egypt's firm, tight-lipped Premier, Mahmoud Fahmy El Nokrashy Pasha, and its British Acting Police Commandant, Major General T. W. Fitzpatrick, were angry but optimistic...
Both were wrong. Next day Cairo's crooked streets spawned more trouble. More stores, Arab as well as foreign, were looted, and synagogues in Cairo and Alexandria were set afire. Doughty Premier Nokrashy Pasha personally seized two pillagers by the scruff of the neck, had them arrested. By the second nightfall more than 1,000 persons had been jailed in Cairo alone, many of them for looting...
Carriers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers, submarines steamed into East Coast, West Coast, Gulf Coast ports-Seattle, San Francisco, New Orleans, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, New York-while landing ships waddled up the rivers and canals to inland cities like St. Louis, Cairo, Ill., Dubuque, Iowa, Minneapolis and St. Paul...