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The Appeal of Communism in Arab Countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Marver H. Bernstein
Marver H. Bernstein
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Princeton University
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World Politics , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , July 1957 , pp. 623 - 629
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1957

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1 Quoted from New York Tribune, April 19, 1853.

2 The author has used materials in nine languages: Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Hebrew, Yiddish, English, French, German, and Russian.

3 Interview with Charles Malik, Foreign Minister of Lebanon, “How to Beat Communism in the Middle East,” U.S. News and World Report, March 29, 1957, p. 88.Google Scholar

4 Cf. Malik's comment: “I don't believe at all that Islam is a bulwark against Communism, any more than Greek Orthodoxy was in Russia. I don't believe it at all … the religious factor is incompetent by itself to withstand the Communist onslaught” (Ibid., p. 89).

5 Ibid., p. 90.

6 Ibid.

7 Quoted from Watnick, Morris, “The Appeal of Communism to the Underdeveloped Peoples,” in Hoselitz, Bert F., ed., The Progress of Underdeveloped Countries, Chicago, 1952.Google Scholar

8 Malik, , op.cit., p. 88.Google Scholar

9 Ibid., p. 92.

10 Ibid., p. 90.