Word: persianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philby delivered a harsh judgment on what he called "the Scandal of Saudi Arabia." A few roads, waterworks at Riyadh, Mecca and other places, some hospitals, a few public buildings, and the 350-mile railway that Arabian American Oil Co. built to connect Saud's capital with the Persian Gulf are about the only constructive achievements that he can find to list to the regime's credit. All the rest of the oil wealth, a billion dollars or more, has gone down the drain, he says, in "vast private fortunes accumulated and invested safely beyond the borders . . . vast...
...time of the capture, Potter was touring through the Middle East with Fereydoun Ala, the son of the Iranian Prime Minister, and his brother-in-law, Narcy Firouz. Driving through Iran in September, natives told them about a herd of Dziggetais, the onager's Persian name. When the travelers saw a group of 30, they dashed in pursuit in a jeep. Potter said that the tactics used were to drive along side one of the running animals and then, "Lean out, hug him around the neck, and let him pull you out. He soon tires. Then you threw...
Initiated in 1954 with substantial backing from American business interests, the Middle Eastern program will produce its first batch of eight graduates this June. They will learn at least one of the four languages taught--Arabic, Turkish, Persian and Hebrew and will generally survey the area from economics to religion. Actually, the eight M.A.'s are only one part of the work of the Middle Eastern Center, which also sponsors independent research and grants doctoral degrees jointly with other University departments. It was the M.A. program, however, which brought the greatest response--especially from private business...
...defense position is more impressive. Under the strategic plan pushed by the British ever since their evacuation of Suez, the main Middle East defense line would be established along the rugged Zagros mountain range which runs from eastern Turkey southeastward along the north shore of the Persian Gulf. This line, the British argue, is "the only reasonably defensible terrain," can be supplied readily from Iraq, and they figure they could fly in an armored division from Libya, Jordan or Cyprus in less than three weeks after a Russian attack was launched...
Abba Eban was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1915. He moved on to London in 1922, studied and later taught Arabic, Hebrew and Persian at Cambridge. He once debated the case that the British educational system at Cambridge was insupportable "because it professed to educate a governing class which could not govern." Eban went to the World