Word: samir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arab zones of Palestine when the British withdraw. Some of his Arab neighbors (especially Syria, which resents Abdullah's aspirations to rule a Greater Syria) suspected that, once installed, Abdullah's Legionnaires would stay in Palestine. Abdullah's delegate to the League, Prime Minister Samir Rifai, chain-smoked nervously through last week's meetings...
...Middle East the occasion was momentous. Egypt's King Farouk was host. The delegates were Foreign Ministers or their equivalent. Trans-Jordan's Premier Samir el Refai Pasha underlined the Arabic character of the meeting. Though he wears European clothes in his native desert, he wore stunning Arab robes in Cairo. Most important, Saudi Arabia, keystone of any Pan-Arab federation and outstanding absentee at last autumn's Alexandria conference of Arab nations (TIME, Oct. 16), would attend the meeting in the person of Al Sheikh Yussef Yassin, personal secretary of King Ibn Saud. Yemen, the little...