Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first nonverbal reaction was "civil disobedience." Arab workers in Palestine walked out in a twelve-hour general strike. Diehard pan-Arabs called for a jihad, or holy war, to wrest back Palestine from the infidel. In Jerusalem, the Arab temper flared most angrily. A mob surged from the Mosque of Omar, shouted "Death to the Americans and British!" and stoned a column of Tommies. They fell back before British batons and a sudden heavy rainstorm. Tanks rumbled up to the Damascus Gate. The 100,000 British troops in the Holy Land were alerted...
Betrayal! cried 17 high-ranking British civil servants in a furious letter to the Times-"the people of the Straits Settlements and of the Malay States are being coerced . . . without regard to democratic principles." Ex-Colonial Secretary Oliver Stanley accused the Government of going "out of their way to insult the Sultans...
...might also have said that he is 55, the son of a civil servant, an Oxford graduate (in jurisprudence), an ingrained reformer, a wonder at skittles, author of novels, plays, verse and broadsides, Britain's reigning wit, a Punch contributor since 1910, and since 1935 an Independent M.P. from Oxford...
...Anglo-American squabble over transatlantic commercial flying was apparently laid to rest last February by the Bermuda air agreement (TIME, Feb.11). But last week its ghost was walking. The Senate's Commerce Committee held that the agreement was illegal and void. Its reason: the State Department and Civil Aeronautics Board had no right to make international commitments; "such arrangements . . . should be regarded as treaties, subject to ratification by two-thirds vote of the Senate...
...declared himself Lenin's heir and best disciple though Lenin, before his death, had broken with Stalin and repudiated him; 4) he issued history a false passport by revising the entire record of the Russian revolution, eliminating Trotsky and making himself the military hero of the civil war and the political hero of the revolution; 5) he officially murdered a whole generation of Old Bolsheviks who knew the truth and might spill...