Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...startling note of moderation crept into Palestinian affairs last week. The "Morrison Plan" for a federal Palestine was fading like a desert mirage. The Jews refused to discuss it. Arab representatives at the London conference rejected the plan in toto. The British Government was about ready to drop...
...could not utterly desert and become a Unionist; he could not remain with Davis. ... He was neither here nor there, a lonely and bewildered figure, wandering through the twilight of the Confederacy with a copy of its Constitution in his hands...
News dispatches solemnly reported an Arab tale of a boy who lived with a herd of gazelles in the Syrian desert. He browsed and watered with them, sped over the sand with them when they fled the hunter. In fact, he ran at a speed of no less than 50 m.p.h.* for several miles before a jeepload of hunters finally overhauled him and took him into camp. Skeptical Americans, who had been raised on such fare from P. T. Barnum to Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller, heard and grinned...
...population grew apace-the Jews largely by immigration, the Arabs by propagation. Arabs now number over one million, twice the 1922 figure; the Palestinian Jews number over half a million. The springs of Jewish colonizing vigor, amply fed by the money of world Jewry, flowed out on to the desert. U.S. Jews have contributed almost $100 million to Palestine, invested $50 million more. The "hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land," which Mark Twain saw in 1867, was dotted with green fields and citrus groves...
...princes have angrily watched the Jews upset Palestine's traditional feudal ways. In the upsurge of Arab nationalism, Palestine's Arabs have wondered why they, alone of Arab peoples, should be denied even the semblance of independence. The tide of Arab nationalism, sweeping in from the desert, met the tide of Jewish immigration sweeping in from Europe; the clash culminated in the "disorders" of 1936-39, when Arabs fought first the Jews, and then the British...