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September 2, 1941.
ARABS' VITAL PART
IN THE
HE Arab-speaking world,
Tboth in extent and do
WAR
cognised as an independent ally of the British Empire.
The importance of Iraq to the Empire is two-fold;. It is an essential land and air bridge in our system of Imperial communications eastward, but he had the consolation of and it provides an admirable oil sup-
ply. living to see Faisal, his second FACTS ABOUT `OIL A now factor is entering the son, after being expelled by the minions, though not in popula-
an irregular "y" laid on its side, tion, comes perhaps third, if not war-the Arab world. As events French from Damascus, become THE great pipe-line, in shape like Hecond, to the English-speaking develop in Iraq, Syria, and else- King of Iraq, and Abdullah, his starts from the oil uplands near
Amir of Transjor- Kirkuk.” world, its possible rival in this where, the attitude of the Arabs third son,
to the British cause becomes in- dan. respect-boing that of Spain.
The magnificent, but distract- creasingly important, This article ingly difficult, Arabic language is spoken, written, and read nlong the whole of North Africa, southward into the Su- dan
beyond Khartum,: well throughout the vast peninsula of Arabia, the cradle of the Arab race, throughout Pales- Line, Syria, and in Iraq,
It is thus the current vehicle' of thought from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf, and will often serve the traveller be- yond the frontiers of Iran and up to the very confines of In- dia.
But since this unity was achieved by the victorious mis- sionaries of the Prophet Mo- hammed, with the sword in their right hand and the Koran in their left, over a variety of races which have to a certain. extent maintained the original pharacteristics of their blood, it unity of language and re-
Hongkong Telegraph.ligion rather than of nation.
Tuesday, Sept. 2, 1941,
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WISE COUNsel needeD
And even this unity of langu- age is not to be compared with the English-speaking union; for whereas written Arabic is in- variable, and can therefore be understood anywhere (by such
By Sir RONALD STORRS
as enn read), spoken Arabic dif- analyses the Arab world-ita fers so greatly, both in pronun- structure, its personalities, its ciation and vocabulary, that a aims, and its history since Law Morroccan and an Egyptian can ronce welded its warriors into a hardly maintain simple conver- powerful ally for Britain. sation.
*
Near Haditha, on the Euphrates, His conqueror, King Ibn Sa- the stem branches into the northern or line, going to French-mandated ud, n potentate in every sons Tripoli, in Syrin (called by the Arabs of the word and a loyal friend Carubulus al-Sham-Eastern Tripoli of Britain, is by far the greatest to distinguish it from Carabulus personality in the purely Arab al-Gharb, or Western Tripoll); and or "" line, to the world.
English-mandated
Haifa in Palestine. He proceeded to unite the Estas y or a map of the British
Копу Hejaz with Nejd under the title Isles on the same scule, and it will of Saudi-Arabin.
start from Johu o' Greats fork at
the
arin Though he did not at arst Berwick-on-Tweed, with find it easy to impose on the running through Lancashire, Che- shire, the Welsh border and the pleasure-loving Heinzis the Bristol Channel, to Land's End, and drastle renunciations of Wah- the other through the Lake Country hubign whereby not only alco- and hol and tobacco but even coffee Cark harbour,
The system lies across bure de- are prohibited, he has intro- duced order and method (cou- sert, with pumping stations at inter-
Vals of about 10 miles. pied with a most undictatorial The Tripoli branch is not at pre- democratic freedom of speech) sent working, so that even tho to a degree hitherto unknown Axis-bought rebels were able to deny oll to Britain by netually ex- in that vnst wilderness,
from Iraq they pelling our force would not thereby be making a pre-
MISTAKES
Transjordan, under the mau-
across the Irish Channel to
TWO ALLIES
PALESTINE is administered seal of it to Germany, for the pipe-,
by Great Britain under line could be cut. League mandate.
Grave mistakes have been TRAQ is, like Egypt, under a limited monarchy. It was unfortunate committed there by the Govern in the premature demlic of its first ment as well as by the governed, King, the proud and statesmanlike but the mutual hostilities of Jew Fadent the First; and even more so and Arab have been greatly in the person of his successor (killed diminished by common horror in a motor accident). The present of Axis methods and both are King, Faisal the Second, is an infant now fighting side by side in the under a Regency,
The 3,000,000 Iraqis are 34 per cent. more Shin than Sunnt.
Team-work has never been the runks of freedom.
Arab sult, and under a form of date, but outside the operation stronrect
government the nuts are apt to de- of Zionism, is ruled by the loyal constitutional Western Amir Abdullah, the aforesaid velop the worst symptoms of Have- son of the late King Husain of not New Order-lies elsewhere.
When Italy attacked Iraq's British the Hejaz and uncle of the
failed to expel the Again, the religious unity is
Fascist Minister, and his intrigues sharply divided, the majority ous fertile mountain territory young Amir Abd al-llah, Regent ally Bachend
found fertile soil In Army malcon- of Yemen, so called because it of Iraq. belonging to the Sunni persua
Syria, their northern neigh tents, notably the Big Four of dis sion of Islam-corresponding 15 on the right-hand-Yamin
Janies in the Protestantism in of the believer is he prays to bour, has known uneasy days loyal colonels, who installed the roughly. to
under the mandate of France, qualing Rashid al-Gallani.
We have Christianity- the Morroccans wards Mecca,
two firm allies The Yemen is ruled by the which can count with certainty and the Iruq tribesmen (but not
Bahrain ("Two Seas"-because their townsfolk) being Shin Imam Yahya, a dictator whose upon the fidelity of the Christi- Gull. The independent Shaikh of which more resembles Roman sympathies if he may be said an Maronite sect in the Leban- fares to the Persian Gulf and the with a Catholicism, and the Arabs of to cherish any are decidedly on, but hardly upon the Mus. Indian Ocean), permanent G.H.Q.
lims, the Druses and other com- of the Gulf pearl fisheries, Northern Arabia professing the pro-Italian
munities of whom the majority trade of half a million a year; and
the Shalkh of Kuwait SONS ARE RULERS
Little Fort," the dim
the diminutive of Kut). Of austere Puritanism of the Wah- habi sect.
NORTH Arabia is divided into is composed.
Syrians, particularly in the the surrounding countries. Turkey, These three divisions have the Hejaz on the West, and
coastal regions, are of mixed Iron, and Afghanistan, linked to Frag by the 1937 Peace Pact of about as much use for each the Nejd on the East.
From the Hejaz, with its and far from pure Arab stock. Sadabad, are disconcerted by this other as had the more extreme
They are a commercial, intel- weakening of their united front to sectaries of the different Chris- sacred cities, Mecca and Medina tian Churches at the time of the (respectively the birthplace and ligent people whose lack of ba the common aggressors. Reformation.
the burial place of the prophet lance has not been remedied by Muhammad) sprang the great their heavy doses of European ALL these Arab countries Egypt, A the Hejaz, Palestine, Syrin, and education. religion of Islam.
Iraq own their freedom from Ot- STORY OF "MESPOT" TRAVELLING to-day on The Hejaz and, indeed, all
tanan domination to Great Britain; brief personally conducted
AST, but foremost in the news, three of them-Egypt, the Hejaz, and
received Arabia save Aden, formed at LA
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absolute independence This thought is suggested by find the whole of the west in the beginning of the last war what the fine old lady called "the Britan
blessed name of Mesopotamia," which The Hejaz was then ruled by is the Greek for the "mid-river land" upon which neither Nazism nor Fas- the fact that the non-confidence one gigantic bloc under French part of the Ottoman Empire.
domination. Morrocco, a pro- vote passed at last week's meet-tectorate with a nominal sultan the Grand Sherif-afterwards lying between the Tigria and the The -ng-was-hardly-a-representative under the governor-general; King-Husain as hereditary Ot- Euphrates.
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is likely to improve. There are those who believe that things need not have reached this Its capital is Baghdad, situated a pass had there been fewer and less the Tirls some 30 miles from the rapid changes of British-representa-- one in that only 214 votes were Algiers, an integral part of
When Turkey attacked
ruins of the Tower of Babel, and not t in Baghdad. France of which it forms two IIussin formed a military pnet much farther from those of the an
The East is
Is influenced by persona- cast out of an estimated attend-
departments, and Tunisia, with the Allies.
clent city of Babylon, by the Euph- lilles and the sympathy that comes
knowledge. ance of close on 600. This again
with close a protectorate under a
The Arab "Revolt in the De- rates.
Ambassadors to Eastern Powers would
of. The confluence of those two inmaul indiente that some Bey..
sert" was the occasion
changeable parts of The Italian colony of Libya, Lawrence's legendary exploits, rivers into the Persian Gulf is known are not like the standardised inter- hundreds of men were neither divided into Tripolitania and
as Shait-al-Arab.
On this lies Bosra, the port of equally
In Madrid, Co- serviceable satisfled that a new committee Cyrenaica, was wrested. from culminating in Allenby's deci-
Iraq, capable of receiving oceau penhagen, or Rio de Janeiro.
The recently published illuminat- After the war was desirable or that the old Turkey by Italy in 1910. Libya sive victory,
the political going vessels, and consequently u is vast in area, of what Lord. commitice were fulfilling their
call "light acumen of King Husain deteri- factor of Interest and concern to ing life of Sir Percy Cox-till re-
much of whose Salisbury used to
eastward membered throughout Iraq and up Turkey, First unctions As expected.
soil," gave for a few oases and orated. He quarrelled not only trade passes that way by water and and down the Gulf as "Cukkus"--is thing needed, therefore, is cicar-cut expression of opinion 13 to what the men desire to be
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an instance of this truth deserving the coastal belt, from which the with his British ally, but also by Iraq is formed of three Ottoman coreful study.
Baghdad, and Another example is Lord Cromer's inhabitants have been steadily with his tastern neighbour and
Basra-conquered by Britain, not long unchanged proconsulship to displaced and dispossessed by rival, Abd al-Aziz Ibn Sa-ud, provinces Mosul,
ruler of Nejd, who drove him without painful vicissitudes, between which Britain owes her vital rela-.
1018 and 1018; administered under tions with Egypt, and Egypt her Husain took refuge in Cyprus, British mandate, and in 1027 rere in the sun.
THE NAZI ON HOLIDAY
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GYPT, since the treaty of 1936 the loyal ally of Great Britain, is # constitutional limited monarchy.
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tives should go about the task. The horrible crueltics-seni- out of the Hejaz
Undoubtedly the new coming of wells, flinging of Arab mittee are sincere in their chiefs and even of their wives efforts to improve upon the from aeroplanes, and generally extermination - have results of their predecessors, ruthless but there is a natural hesitancy caused the name of Dis Graži- to believe that Bull-in-the-China-ani, to stink through the Arab shop tactics will achieve this. world; and it is a significant Revolutionary spirits, especially tribute to the "civilising mis- when they are honestly seeking | sion" of the modern Roman em- redress for community lils, gen. pire that Libya is the only Arab erally merlt sympathy, but selec- country under European govern- tion of the right time and the ment whose population has seri- right methods are necessary if ously decreased, they are to succeed in their quest. Violent and ill-considered action over this issue is almost certain to meet with failure be cause conditions, notably of a political character, which govern the Colony to-day are abnorizal; Government asaumes more sweeping powers in consequence, and all issues affected by the political circumstances are treat- ed with greater circumspection than under ordinary conditions. Acceptance of this may not be palatable, but it is essential if, the husbands' representatives. are to succeed in making any Impression on the official, mind. The husbands' case can be ad- vanced vigorously, but at the same time need not adopt a line of attack likely to allenate of ficialdom, both in Hind
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She is more than the leading. Arabic-speaking country she is almost the leading Moham-' medan nation.
If, as we hope, there is to be an Arab Renaissance, only Egypt can lead it.
The benefit of Britain to the Egyptian alliance is not only material, but moral.
Egypt possesses, incomparo- bly the finest Press of all the Arab countries, and the in- Buence of her strong democratic sympathics penetrates sooner or later far beyond the Egypti- an and Sudanese frontiers to every corner of the Arab world.
The great Arabian Peninsula f a million square miles (it is not less than 1,400 miles from Aqaba to Aden) contains: about 7,000,000 inhabitants..
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