Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There sit three nations-Syria, Iraq and Jordan-whose borders were drawn largely by the British, largely on sand. Last week, with Britain's last shreds of authority being blown away, these three Arab states were exposed in all their perishability to the full blast of nationalist bent and Soviet propaganda...
...recent months a "strongman," Lt. Col. Abdel Saraj, has seized an unofficial but practical hold on Syrian affairs. Saraj, who is reputed to be strongly pro-Communist, is above all an Arab nationalist, and considers Nassar as the "Arab Attaturk" who will lead the Arab world to a glorious unification. As a result of this willingness to follow Nassar, Syria, in October of this year, joined with Egypt and Jordan in putting its army under joint Egyptian control in case...
Jordan (pop. 1,500,000, one-third Palestinian refugees). Has broken off relations with France, and London has announced "temporary withdrawal" of its military mission, foreshadowing the end of the $25 million British subsidy. Its Harrow-educated King Hussein, 21, is pro-British; its newly elected parliament is rabidly nationalist and leftist; its youthful, pro-Nasser army boss made a military pact with Egypt and Syria just before the invasion of Egypt. But the Arab Legion, now called the Jordanian army, is no longer the trim fighting force British commanders once made of it. Chaotic Jordan may turn...
This year the Olympics have been seriously undermined even before the games start. Team after team has withdrawn to protest Russia's action in Hungary and England's action in Egypt, and then to add to the commotion, Communist China withdrew to protest the participation of Nationalist China...
...these facile anodynes are clearly inadequate to dismiss the tragedy of brutal slaughter, the blatant violation of every civilized principle of right and humanity that Soviet tanks are enacting in the streets of Budapest. Nehru the nationalist, the anti-colonialist, the champion of humanism has played a sorry card; there can be little doubt about that...