Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Road to Damascus. For the first time, the Arab world was glimpsing the sickening possibility of defeat. Fat effendis in tasseled tarbooshes and doublebreasted business suits were streaming from Jerusalem in new American sedans that swayed under the load of rolled-up Turkish rugs and bundled household goods. Their escape route led past Gethsemane and Bethany to the Dead Sea, through Jericho, across the shallow Jordan by Allenby Bridge to Arab Trans-Jordan; then, past caravans of sneering camels, to the crowded, expensive hotels of Damascus and Beirut...
Road to Amman. Plump, turbaned little King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan was indeed the center of Arab hopes. The danger of defeat, which sent Arab refugees scuttling from Palestine, sent Arab politicians to Abdullah in Amman. Cabled TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs after a visit last week: "Amman has become an Oriental boom town, crowded by Arab politicians, foreign diplomats and correspondents paying exorbitant prices to sleep four in a room in the Philadelphia Hotel. The streets are crowded with Arab Legionnaires in spiked helmets with Beau Geste backflaps, Bedouins in rags of lacelike complexity, donkeys, camels, jeeps, trucks, U.S. cars...
...Pasha, mild-mannered secretary general of the Arab League. He made no rash claims. Unshaven and weary, with his tarboosh pushed far back on his head, he admitted disconsolately that the Arabs were "the most inefficient and undisciplined people in the world." They could not at present, he thought, defeat the Jews in pitched battles, but he claimed that they would win in the end. Asked how long it would take, Azzam smiled wanly: "Six months, nine months, perhaps a year...
Kneel Before Sitting. Bishop Oxnam turned next to the menace of Communism. A "holy war" against the Communists is no answer, he said; the evil must be fought where it grows-in poverty and economic injustice. Nor can Christians "defeat totalitarianism by allying ourselves with totalitarianism, whether it be ecclesiastical or political." Ideas cannot be shattered by atomic bombs, but only by better ideas. "Justice and brotherhood within the conditions of freedom are like bells. They sound the death knell of Communism...
Thus in London's Sunday Express last week, Columnist Nat Gubbins good-naturedly warned U.S. tourists in Britain. But U.S. trippers did not scare easily. Two months ago political worries had led some to cancel trips to Europe, but the defeat of Italy's Communists had queued them up in longer lines than ever. Last week, for the first time since last fall, the Queen Elizabeth left New York City packed to the rails. This summer some 100,000 U.S. tourists will visit the United Kingdom and Eire; twice as many hope to go to the Continent...