Word: israell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program toward constitutional monarchy. Though still autocratic in his ways, he has inspired modernization of his people and the country, remained devoted to the West (if not wholeheartedly to France). In this, he shunned Egypt's Nasser & Co. in their noisy pan-Arabism and holy-war complex against Israel, yet stepped forward in an earnest attempt to reach some solution with Tunisia's Bourguiba of the mess in Algeria (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...MIDDLE EAST The Homeless For nearly a decade, the most sensitive political ganglion in the strife-racked body of the Middle East has been the problem of the Arab refugees from Palestine. In tents and makeshift camps around Israel's borders from Gaza to Aleppo, they have lived-nearly 1,000,000 of them-in squalor and bitterness. Israel stubbornly refuses to take them back. The Arab countries just as stubbornly refuse to resettle them, on the grounds that this would be accepting defeat at the hands of Israel...
Thus rejected by friend and foe alike, suspicious of any talk of compromising their rights to return to their homes in Israel, the refugees are ready emotional tinder for the incendiary troublemaking of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...There, before the eyes of 220,000 refugees in the Gaza Strip, their posturing champion, who was to lead the refugees back to their homeland, went down to abject defeat before the Israeli army. To every refugee came the sobering realization that no Arab leader was going to force Israel into the sea and restore them to their lands...
They base their conclusion on experience. Dr. Paul Friedman of Manhattan's Beth Israel Hospital and Dr. Louis Linn of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital were aboard the lie de France on the night of July 25, 1956, when the Stockholm collided with the Andrea Doria. As several hundred survivors were brought onto the lie, the psychiatrists spoke to them and noted their psychological condition. Reporting their findings last week in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Drs. Friedman and Linn noted that the "women and children first" principle brought "some poignant and . . . tragic separations," added that the "principle...