Word: syria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Egypt's Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser completed a little "parley at the summit" with his fellow Arabs of Syria and Saudi Arabia. Their announced achievements were few, but they underlined Nasser's aspiration to establish Egypt as the leader of a united Araby and even, if possible, over all Africa. His undeclared aim: to force the West out of the whole area. Nasser's radio, "Voice of the Arabs," reaches from Morocco to Iran, from Cyprus to Portuguese Mozambique, preaching subversion, rebellion, intransigence and hatred of "imperialists." In Cairo he has gathered together a kind...
...called on Nasser to ask for his cooperation in ending France's agony in North Africa. Cairo newspapers were elated and inflated by the visit of so important a Western statesman on such a mission. In Cairo Pineau also saw Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud and Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly, whose Radio Damascus works closely with the Voice of the Arabs and not long ago was urging Moroccan rebels to "kill those who are killing you. Spare not their women and children, for they spare not yours." In recent months, following some 40 protests...
...Said, Hussein flew to the rendezvous (piloting his de Havilland Dove himself) without his Prime Minister. Having successfully sacked Glubb Pasha, symbol of Britain's long Jordanian dominance, Hussein seemed to be savoring his independence. He had turned down the invitation to join Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria in their Arab "neutral" bloc, and he had already opened negotiations with the British on terms that seemed likely to assure for the young king the continuing of London's $25 million yearly subsidy, and the presence of a British military training mission, instead of the outright British command...
...With Syria's President Shukri el Ku-watly, Nasser and Saud sat down to survey the North African bloodshed and Levantine disorder that their intrigue and gold had helped to promote. Outside, in the Cairo streets, the mobs reckoned on only one advantage from their strengthened position: When the "summit" leaders went to pray at Cairo's 1,000-year-old Alazhar mosque, 3,000 Moslems shouted: "Israel must be annihilated...
...village priests. He stirred the dying enosis (union with Greece) movement into holding a plebiscite (1950), which produced a 95% vote in favor of union. He then sponsored a nationalist youth organization and called for a boycott of everything British. Carrying his propaganda into foreign fields, he visited Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Britain and the U.S., and last year went to the Bandung conference to seek Asian support for Cypriot self-determination. According to the British, he also organized "a systematic campaign of passive resistance" on Cyprus, which became, after arms and explosives were smuggled from Greece, a campaign of active...