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Iraq's excitable, blustering Fadhil Jamali likes to scold Americans about Zionism: "The trouble with you Americans is that you think it is a case of a people without a homeland moving into a land without a people." Saudi Arabia's cool, ceremonious Prince Feisal al Saud is the only Arab head delegate who wears flowing native abaya and qutra. His Egyptian colleague, suave, man-of-the-world Mahmoud Hassan Pasha (whose country contests with Lebanon the intellectual leadership of the Arab world), often wears sports clothes to U.N. sessions. The head delegates and their staffs...
House Afire. The Arabs made the most of the occasion. Cried Iraq's Columbia-educated Fadhil Jamali: "At this moment Palestine is being invaded. ... A part of our home is on fire." The Arab delegations repeatedly wandered from the procedural debate to demand immediate freedom of Palestine as an Arab state. Zionist leaders writhed, but since they had no official status, could not answer. (This week the Assembly decided that the Jewish Agency for Palestine should be allowed to speak before the Assembly's Political and Security Committee, which includes all 55 of the United Nations...