Word: egyptianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ally. King Saud. whose money used to fuel Nasser's shrill pan-Arabism. spent all week conferring warmly with Jordan's young King Hussein in Amman. Only eight months ago, Hussein joined Syria and Saudi Arabia in putting their armies under the joint command of an Egyptian general. By last week the joint command had collapsed. Almost the first thing Saud asked on his arrival was what Hussein was doing about removing Egyptian-backed subversives. Hussein responded by demanding the recall of the Egyptian military attaché in Amman, Lieut. Colonel Fuad Hillal, accusing him of plotting...
...which first dawned in their valleys. Then, competing empires reached out from Babylon and Thebes into the land between-the land of the Bible-and as the tides of conquest and reconquest ebbed and flowed, the children of Israel and other would-be neutrals were swept off now to Egyptian bondage, now to Babylonian captivity. Today, though faces in the modern Iraqi and Egyptian crowds often show startling similarity to the classic profiles on the ancient monuments around them, neither country can claim much identity with its distant past...
...even the Egyptian embassy questions the Pasha's honesty. Syrian and Egyptian broadcasters have shouted "Traitor" and "Satan," denounced him as a stooge of the British and an Ottoman-style tyrant. He pays no heed. Every Iraqi knows how a half-century ago Nuri leagued with the Arab Patriot Jafar al-Askari to conspire against the Ottoman Turks, then fought on camelback for Emir Feisal in World War I's revolt in the Arabian desert...
Nonetheless, within one week 1,871 candidates-by far the largest number in Egyptian history-filed for the Assembly's 350 seats. Some 35 security officers and twelve judges, along with uncounted captains and majors, resigned their government posts to run, a formidable act of faith considering that Nasser's "National Union" will not decide until some time this month which if any of the hopefuls belong on the one and only ticket...
Great Britain, the most important of his enemies, gave in and accepted Nasser's terms and rates; Egypt, in return, let Britain pay its tolls in sterling. It was a settlement as useful to hard-pressed Egypt as to Britain, for much of the Egyptian economy is intertwined with Britain's. London still holds $300 million of blocked Egyptian funds. Some time, when they get to speaking to each other again. Britain will claim that Egypt owes her more than $350 million in obligations incurred when an angry Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal Co. and "Egyptian-ized" foreign...