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...Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud. In Azzam Pasha's pocket, said aides, was Ibn Saud's promise to use most of his U.S. oil royalties (about $20,000,000 a year) to modernize his Bedouin army and to arm Palestinian Arabs for the war on Zionism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: We Will Fight | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...looking longingly after the ships. A Polish Jew who had emigrated to Strasbourg, Josef Hochowitz had two children aboard the ships, Israel (24) and Rebecca (22). Once he had lost them to a German concentration camp, but in 1945 the family was reunited. Now he had lost them to Zionism. Two months ago, exclaiming, "We want to go to our real country," the children had left, and at Sete boarded the Exodus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: In Palestine or Never | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Alumni Club. The delegates of the five Arab states in U.N. gathered round to congratulate London-educated Lawyer Cattan. They formed a group of westernized Arabs, divided by many rivalries, but united by a common hatred of Zionism. Big, hawknosed Charles Malik, the rangy giant of Lebanon, once taught philosophy at Harvard. His part-Christian, part-Moslem state favors Arab independence but fears a pan-Islamic movement which might engulf the Christians of Lebanon. Little, white-thatched Paris el Khoury of Syria has spent a lifetime in politics opposing the Turks, the French, and now the Zionists. He likes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: On the Record | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

Iraq's excitable, blustering Fadhil Jamali likes to scold Americans about Zionism: "The trouble with you Americans is that you think it is a case of a people without a homeland moving into a land without a people." Saudi Arabia's cool, ceremonious Prince Feisal al Saud is the only Arab head delegate who wears flowing native abaya and qutra. His Egyptian colleague, suave, man-of-the-world Mahmoud Hassan Pasha (whose country contests with Lebanon the intellectual leadership of the Arab world), often wears sports clothes to U.N. sessions. The head delegates and their staffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: On the Record | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

SINCE THE ARABS TOOK THE ABSURD ATTITUDE THAT THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO DEFEND THEIR PALESTINE HOMES AGAINST THE CRIMINAL ASSAULTS OF ZIONISM, AN UNPROVOKED CAMPAIGN WAS WAGED AGAINST THEM, WIELDING THE DEADLIEST OF WEAPONS RIDICULE. IN YOUR ISSUE OF APRIL 21, APROPOS OF NOTHING, BUT BECAUSE YOU ARE ONE OF THE WEAPONS OF ZIONISM, YOU HELD UP TO RIDICULE AN ACCOMPLISHED SCHOLAR AND A REFINED GENTLEMAN, THE PRESIDENT OF LEBANON. YOUR SLURRIOUS REMARKS ARE NOT LESS OBVIOUS BECAUSE THEY ARE MORE SUBTLE. BECAUSE WE DON'T CONTROL VOTES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES NOR DO WE VICTIMIZE THE FANATIC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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