Word: pan-arab
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Effendis and fellahin gossiped excitedly about the news, wondered if Nationalist Nahas Pasha's dismissal might be connected with the Pan-Arab conference, which wound up its sessions in Alexandria last week. Nahas's downfall had come just a day after his triumphant radio message to the Arab peoples of the Middle East. Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Trans-Jordan, he announced, had agreed to join a League of Independent Arab States "to achieve the welfare of all Arab countries and safeguard their independence against all aggression." Had Pan-Arabia been born at last...
Observers noted with surprise that the Pan-Arab agreement covered not only education, finance, trade and law, but, unexpectedly, Arab foreign policy, which has hitherto mostly been a British preserve. No Arab state would be permitted to conclude a treaty with a foreign power "contrary to general Arab policy or the interests of any Arab State." Was the foreign power Britain, which has extensive treaty relations with the Arab states? Would Britain acquiesce...
Nevertheless, Nahas had persuaded five Arab states* to unite politically, culturally, economically, and to issue a blunt Pan-Arab pronouncement that "the rights of Palestine Arabs could not be violated without the risk of disturbing peace in the Arab world...
Nahas' sudden dismissal would rock the new Pan-Arab League. There was a slight morning-after feeling as two other signatory Premiers - Syria's Saadallah El Jabry and Lebanon's Riadh El Solh-emplaned for home on "urgent business...
Three astute, calculating men were ready with a forum and a plan for Pan-Arabia. They were: Egypt's Premier, cagey, ambitious Mustafa El Nahas Pasha; Syria's President, handsome, able Shukri Kuwatly; Iraq's ex-Premier, shrewd, far-seeing General Nuri Pasha Es-Said. Nahas Pasha had finally fixed the much-postponed Pan-Arab talks to open in Alexandria's garden-girdled Antoniades Palace after Ramadan (which ends Sept. 17); Kuwatly and Nuri Pasha had produced a joint plan to turn the mirage of Pan-Arabia into a reality...