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SYRIAN STRATEGY
IKE A WEDGE driven be
twoon the British Mandated territories of Palestine and Transjordania and Britain's } staunch ally Turkey lle the French Mandated territories Syria and Lebanon.
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Takon from Turkey after thu Great War and put undor! French mandate in 1920, theso territories are Rome 60,000 square miles in extent and have a population of over 3,500,000. The great majority of these people are Arab and Moslem, though Lebanon, the coastal· strip cutting Syria off from the sea, has at least 500,000 Chris tians.
In 1986 treaties of friendship and alliance were signed between Franco, Syria, and Lobanon, whereby the mandate was, to have given way to autonomy. But in 1989, when theso treaties should have come into force France refused to implement them on the grounds of "strate- gic necessity,"
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IN ENEMY HANDS Syria,
which once formed a link between Turkey and the British forces in Palestino and Egypt. would constitute a grave menace to British interests. Not only would it cut. us off from our ally, but it would give access for an attack on the rich oilfields of Mosul, scarcely. 100 miles from its eastern frontier, and whence a pipeline already leads to the port of Tripoli. Since the col- lapse of France this line has been cut, to the great chagrin of Italy, which hoped to secure rich stores of motor fuel from this source.
To reach Syria an enemy force would have to run the gauntlet of the British Navy-or else pass through the territories of Britain's friends Turkey, Iraq, Transjordania or Palestine. Ap- proach from the sea is made more difficult by the British- owned isle of Cyprus, which lies across the route from Italy, or the Dodecanese Islands,
SINCE THE FALL OF FRANCE, however; the Axis powers have been trying to secure power in Syria by cunning diplomacy. Their consuls are
CYPRUS
FALEXANDRETTA
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PAYMAS
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TRANS JORDAN
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SYRIA--Population 2,050,000 domiciled permanently: 150,000 nomads. Population made up of Syrians, Arabs, Greeks, Jews, Christians, Kurds, Circassians, Berbers; and the notable Warrior Drusts. Country's riches almost entirely agricultural. Capital: Beyrout, where French High Commissioner lives. Syria is rich in history. Tyre, Sidon, Antioch, Damascus, Aleppo, are with- in its borders. It contains two of the most famous and beautiful ruins in the world: Baalbek and Palmyra. Whole country is still dominated by ruins of many Crusaders' castles.
COMMON-SENSE
OF WAR AIMS
ECENTLY the Prime Minis-
RE
2 ter summed up the whole of his war-aim in a single sentence the annihilation of Nazism.
He, asks to "be excused from the
glory, because it will mean striking But the money system under which blows at a much more powerful we are forced to live turns money foe, hidden from the gaze of the into the key of life, and it is therefore man-in-the-street; a foo with wea- impossible for us hot to give it tho pens insidious for the crushing of central place in our thoughts, those who venture to storm his
When this financial manipulation cltadels.
of money forces nations into starva-
than starve.
at work trying to stir up anti-important considerations of planning It masquerades under many names tion, man's instinct of self-preserva- British feeling among the Arabs world after the war on the ground but perhaps the phrase, "money tion, the spearhead of all his instincts, of Syria, who are among the
that until he has finished the task power," is the best way to describe compels, him to do anything rather leaders of the movement for contained in that sentence he is too it. Arab independence and for the establishment of a United Arab Kingdom.
Efforts are also being made to browbeat-the-French-authorities Into handing over the enormous stores of war material of all kinds amassed by the Weygand army, which at one time number ed nearly half a million men but has now dwindled, owing to de- sertion and demobilisation, to about 60,000: They would like to get France to hand over the mandate to Italy or Germany, or at least to allow them to use Syrian naval and air bases for an attack on British possessions and oil supplies. So far the French authorities have refused these demands. There is said to be danger, however, thlit the French authorities, cut off from aupplies, short of funds, and getting no support from Vichy in their resistance, may weaken.
Nazis Don't Want Sea Battle
Admiral Luetzow, German naval spokesman, confesses frankly that the German Fleet does not wish to meet the British Fleet.
In an article in “Das Reich,” he writes
"It is a fact that the British Fleet and the German Fleet are hot fighting each other, but this is not owing to the English wishing to avoid battle, but, be cause the Gorman Admiralty, knowing the superiority of the British Flect, does not wish to do England that favour.”.
Elsewhere in the article he says: "The British Fleet, which still holds the superiority, is also capable pt. withdrawing units from the main battle zones and putting them suc- cessfully in action in battle zones of
The minor importance.' German Fleet, which is weaker than the British Fleot, launable to prevent this.
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busy.
In an age of super-abundance. we That is precisely what happened in and why the hungry Perhaps it was a coincidence that have allowed our international finan- Germany,
elers so to manipulate money, created crowds became an easy prey to the I was listening to a radio talk on for the service of man and for the gangster-methods of an irresponsible gardening when I read the Premier's simpler distribution of the world's leader. words, and that is why my thoughts supplies, that whole nations have. So you get Naziem. wandered on to-dandelions!
been plunged into starvation, whole But it is not logical to speak sections of other nations have been merely of the destruction of the I have been trying to dig for forced into semi - starvation and symptom. victory, to dig for peace, but I have under-nourishment. been beset all that time for even by
Food has
You must force out into the light. one enemy, the pernicious dandelion. harvests have been restricted in the of starvation, for that is the power been destroyed and the power which roused man's dread
which makes for sin.
For six years my one alm has been interest of profit,
the annihilation of those objection- Money has been created and lent The Christian Church must there- able weeds. Year after year I have for the making of the implements fore lift up its voice against what the hacked with a will at their ugly of war, in the very country we now Archbishop calls the crowned heads, but year after year
up they have popped again.
BY THE ROOTS
I remember an experienced gar dener telling me some time ago, “Tho only way to get rid of them is to get their roots out! It's back-aching
work, but it's the only way!"
By the Rev.
W. ROWLAND JONES
Vicar of
*Anancial
Denton, Manchester
struggle against for the annihilation machine," or we shall and that the
annihilation of Nazism, like
the
I have shunned the real issue, of Nazism. partly through laziness and partly Even in the midse of war these lopping of the heads of the donde- because it is more spectacular to Ananciers who seem to recognise no llóns, is so much labour in vain. lash away at the golden heads. So, nationality meet in their International I know the usual answer. I shall as a gardener. I have failed, Bank for the continued manipulation be told as a clerie to mind my own
of the purse-strings.
It is exciting spectacular work clowing down bombers, and making blazes with bombs which can be seen | for 130 miles out sen,
MONEY
business.
The usual phrase, used by fin- anciers and Church leaders nilke is If our war alm must be summed the phrase, "Business is business." up in a sentence, it must surely be Everybody will agree with the the annihilation of the roots which, The only, meaning of that state- Prime Minister that we've got. to beat breed such polsonous things as ment is that there is one sphere of Nazism, just as, quarter of a century Nazism. ago, we had to beat Trusaianism.
life into which Christian: principles
business.
That means nothing less than the must not intrude the sphere of But should not the commonsense scropping and remaking of our nan- war alm be to dig out the roots cial system so that it becomes the When you remember how wide the which periodically produce such servant, not the enalaver, of mankind. scope of business really is, you will crops?
know how much there is left for Lest I am told this has nothing religion to interest itself in. You can use your rhetoric as to do with my profession as a Min- It leaves precisely nothing!- vigorously as you may wish against ister of Religion, I would quole the Nazism, Prussianism, and all those high authority of the Archbishop of other un-Christian "
isma"
which York, who says: ......
If Christianity is to survive, It will from age to age turn this world into
"Many of us have several umes have to fight money power to the over, expressed our conviction that death. If it does not, then Christ!- civilisation has let the unity is doomed, even if Nazism in
a hell.
Yet you will be forced to admit, Western
you are swayed by commonsense, financial machine assume an alto annihilated. that these things are symptoms of a gether wrong position in the order-
much more serious disease.
́DISEASE SYMPTOMS
FIGHT IT:{
ed lives of mankind, and have urged I do not say the Church is doomed; that the new factor. In the relative that is a different thing, for I have lack of expansion of markets neces- bo doubt that the Church will find sitates what on moral grounds was a way to adapt herself and survive. When you have destroyed Frus- always desirable, an overhauling of She always has. sianism even to the point of anni- the entire stricture." hilation, you find you have only
But not Christianity alone. Un topped off the head of the pernicious
less the power of money-la- broken weed.
civilisation is doomed: - The Christian religion teaches us until it is broken we must go on,
THE ROOT OF EVIL
It is time the world gave itself that the love of money is the root of to the task of digging out the roois all evil, which regularly.produce such crops w for the misdry of man.
as all thoughtful people are, to be haunted by the memory of mutilated.
The very, next sentence in the bodies, shattered homes, hatred inten. It will be back-aching work, Bible tells us that money, therefore, died, and a grim menseing prospect -* lacking “the ... grandeur of military must not be coveted.
before the peoples of all Europe.
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