Word: syria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
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...
Plans. Nahas Pasha reportedly had his own pet plan-a large, loose coalition embracing, under Egypt's leadership, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Syria, the Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, the Yemen...
...Kuwatly-Nuri plan was less spacious, more workable, stood a better chance of success. It aimed to reunite into a Greater Syria Federation four countries-Syria, the Lebanon, Palestine, Trans-Jordan-that had formed part of the old Ottoman Empire. Arab unity would be achieved in two stages: 1) the Greater Syria move under an agreed form of government; 2) a larger League of Arab States, to which the new Greater Syria and Iraq would immediately adhere. Other Arab States might come in when they wished...
...Lebanese Christians who fear engulfment in a Moslem bloc, the Greater Syria plan offers a "privileged" regime. To the 600,000 Jews of Palestine the plan promises "semi-autonomy" inside the larger Arab framework, with Jewish local government in predominantly Jewish areas (e.g., Tel-Aviv), but Arab government elsewhere...