Word: jamali
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...Sides. Convened in angry haste by Egypt's Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser, the league's leaders gathered in Cairo. Iraq argued that the Arabs could not safely refuse to seek the protection of the West. As ex-Premier Mohammed Fadhil Jamali once put it: "We have many complaints against the West...But this should not blind us to the fact that the West today needs us as much as we need the West...The Arabs do not have the force to stand against international currents and have no alternative but to depend on others for their own defense...
Syria's Faris El Khouri and Iraq's Mohamed Fadhil Jamali moved into the picture with another Assembly resolution entitled "United Action for Peace." It recommended that the Security Council's permanent members (the U.S., Britain, France, Russia and China) "meet and discuss ... all problems which are likely to threaten international peace . . ." The big powers would report back to the Assembly the outcome of their umpteenth get-together...
...galleries and the speakers on the rostrum alike grew more emotional. Pakistan's Sir Mahmoud Zafrullah Khan, ending an argument against partition, threw back his bearded head and cried: "All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the Universe." In his last harangue Iraq's excitable Fadhil Jamali accused Zionists of financing a recent Communist conspiracy in Bagdad. The crowd booed, stamped and jeered...
...protective coloration of Manhattan's midtown hotels, the polyglot parliamentarians became as invisible as so many native New Yorkers. There were some exceptions. At the Waldorf-Astoria, Saudi Arabia's lean, bearded Prince Feisal could be seen plainly as he whispered with Iraq's jumpy Fadhil Jamali, surrounded by a bodyguard packing gold swords and blue-steel .453. The Servant of God and Sword of Islam, Abdullah Saif, would cool his heels in luxurious comfort at the Sherry-Netherlands while the Assembly debated the admission of his tiny state of Yemen...
Fighting Invited? When the Arabs saw themselves losing the debate, they lost their tempers. Cried Iraq's Fadhil Jamali: "Supporting the aspirations of the Jews [in Palestine] means very clearly a declaration of war. . . . This is an invitation to fighting." Even Arabs saw they had gone too far when Emil Ghory, a Christian Arab on the Palestine Arab Higher Committee, defended his pro-Nazi boss, the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, with an un-Christian outburst: "The Jews are questioning the record of an Arab spiritual leader. Does that come properly from the mouth of a people who have crucified...