Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down with Mossadegh, they can plead, as they did last week, for patience and good will on the specific question of Iranian oil. But they do not speak out of any broad, concerted Western policy that visualizes clearly the British and American roles in the future of the Moslem world. In forming future policy, the U.S., not Britain, will have the greater weight, as it had in the wartime decisions of the Western allies...
Asia, is faced with steering the lifeboats and supervising the disaster teams. The Moslem world, frantic to shake off oppression and poverty that it ascribes solely (and not altogether correctly) to Western exploitation, has frequently responded with a fanatical and irresponsible nationalism. That way is apt to lead to continued poverty, chaos and neutralism at the least, to ultimate capture by Communism at the worst...
With almost casual candor, Dwight Eisenhower last week restated an old American feeling. The U.S. must support the "legitimate aspirations" of the Moslem world from Dakar to Mindanao, he said, "or else I don't see how we can hold true to our doctrine that we do not want to dominate anyone." Legitimate, of course, was the key word; it did not mean abandoning the Middle East to headlong, irresponsible nationalism. The great colonial powers had long preached that a people has to be emotionally, intellectually and economically ready before it can safely run its own house...
...assassin, seated ten feet in front of the speaker's stand, tried to break and run, but the shouting, screaming mob leaped on him. Moslem National Guards thrust at him with their spears. Fingers scooped out his eyeballs. One of his arms was torn off. Later, after Liaquat had died in hospital (see NEWS IN PICTURES), police identified the dead assassin as Said Akbar, 29, an Afghan. The weapon he had used was a Mauser-type pistol, probably made by native craftsmen of the frontier, where gunmaking is a common household industry...
Meeting on the night of Liaquat's death, the Pakistan cabinet appointed as his successor Khwaja Nazimuddin. Roly-poly Nazimuddin, 57, who looks like a jovial friar in his long black Moslem coat, has been Governor General of Pakistan since 1948. Educated-like Nehru-at Cambridge, Nazimuddin opposed British rule in India, rose to be Premier of his native East Bengal, and in 1946 renounced his British knighthood. He is a devout Moslem, has made the pilgrimage to Mecca...