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BEHIND the attempted assas-
sination of King Ibn Saud
of Saudi Arabia is the story of
a hidden war front on which
Britain is gaining ground.
The Nazis tried to assassinate this powerful Islamic ruler be cause he is working on a plan for a gigantic federation of Arab States which would be favourable to Britain.
For
years Moslem many leaders throughout the Near and Middle East have realised the menace of the Axis expan sionist dreams to Islam.
Not one of them was hood- winked for a moment by Musso- lini's bombastic assumption of the title "Defender of Islam.”
Always in their mind too was Germany's oft-expressed desire to extend her Empire down to Bagdad and Basra,
King Ibn Saud is by far the ablest of Arab rulers. His people are the super-pious Wahabis, and he has built up his great king-
dom single-handed. ·
Gulf as a bulwark of Islam dynamic personality, was King against the Axis.
Ibn Saud, friend of Britain.
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By eliminating Ibn Saud the Nazis thought the federation WHERE, before the war, his plan would die, and so would be conversation with other Arab removed the greatest potential chiefs had been confined to danger to their ambitions in the sounding thom as to their views Near and Middle East..
on the subject, on the actual out- The Germans did their work break of war they became crys- well, Sherif 'Abdul agreed that tallised with the definite object ho himself should become, their of preparing for a formal con- instrument of elimination. federation conference.
Sherif Abdul waa next heard recently when, id a few brief But the German Foreign Office words, it was announced that has long cars. Whispers of King Ibn Saud had discovered those early conversations reach a plot to assassinate him and ed the Wilhelmstrasse through that six conspirators had been secret Nazi ngenta in the Middle arrested. East. The whispers were en-
THE HIDDEN FRONT
Why Hitler Tried To Kill A King
The conspirators turned out to be none other than the Nazis' protege, the Sherif Abdul and five of his men.
All the men were executed. Shorif Abdul himself was saved from the gallows only because he is the descendant of Prophet Mohamed. Now he lies a pri soner in King Ibn Saud's hands, · who is continuing with his plan.
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ONCE confederation nchieved there is a strong possi- bility that other Moslem king- doms will join it for security, reasons, kingdoms such Afghanistan and Iran, which are already linked by the political-
Among those who are working concessions. He preferred in- ough to make them want to hear with Ibn Saud to bring about the confederation are the Arab stead to accept a lower offer more. from American interests whom
nationalists of Syria-Lebanon, he knew had no territorial am- with one man who they knew independence for their country, The Germans got in touch who have consistently demanded bitions.
By A Special Correspondent military Sadabad Pact.
cars. The far-secing Arabs did and religious freedom gone for not trust the Nazis and Fascists, ever.
the democratic Emir Abdullah of
could probably give them inside from the French Mandate, the At the outbreak of war it was information about it-the Sherif Mufti of Jerusalem, hitherto an Ibn Saud, most progressive of all Abdul Hamid Ibn Oan, a wealthy inveterate enemy of Britain, the The Axis blandishments, pour- Arab leaders, who first realised. Arab. landowner with consider- autocratic Iman Yehin Yemen, ed out in an unending stream that if Hitler and Mussolini were able property in Egypt. of daily broadcasts in Arabic to to win, the Arabs would be en- the Moslem world, fell on deaf slayed and their independence invited to Berlin, where he was and the nationalists of Iraq.
Sherif Abdul was accordingly Transjordan, the independent Sultanates of Oman and Kuwait lavishly entertained and treated with the ceremony accorded to ready fighting with Britain,
Thousands of Arabs' are al- Iraq had long known that the It was Ibn Saud too who real- Germans had their eyes on the ised that a British victory would an honoured plenipotentiary. If the federation comes about Mosul oilfields.
mean the ultimate success of a The Germans learned from before the end of the war, Before the war Germans, plan of which he had long him what they had suspected united Islam will declare mili Italians and Japanese were all dreamed-a gigantic federation that the prime mover behind the tary alliance with Britain and a offering to exploit the Saudi of Arab states throughout the plan, the one man who could Holy War against Hitler and Arabian oilfields, but Ibn Saud Near and Middle East from bring the confederation into be- Mussolini-50,000,000 Moslems refused to grant any of them Morocco to Syria and the Persian ing through the forces of his fighting for Britain,
Mussolini, The Quisling Of Italy
by
Peter Matthews
W
PRIVATE LIFE OF A PRIVATE
THAT is an Engli3⁄4hanun?**
asks Siberia.
He peels the cello- phane of a cigarette, packet; Folls it into
thin spill, twists it into a ketul of string, tests-the-strength-of-it-in-his- hands, and comments: "A man is jali could make a rope out of stuff like this."
The Kid from Widnes, who now has hopes of becoming a corporal, sayx; You black git An English-
·man 14 an Englishman a feller what's born in England."
"Quite so." says Siberlo. "But I
Mixing
It Up For Adolf
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long boat, and he would be a Viking boy,
WOS
"The Long Man of Durham" has the profile of n Roman. He made when Hadrian built his Great Wall right across North England, to keep out the ralding Plets and Scots.
"The Surrey Blond Man is straight and Anglo-Saxon, from head to foot, The Devon Fariner, with his wide shoulders, still has a dash of the old Semitic races that ended in the West of England which gave him birth. Looking round, I can see an animated History of England."
"So what" says the Surrey Blond
The Italian people are at last beginning to realise what the am still asking What is an English-
"Then the Romans, who also Man. linking with Germany means; man? Take the men in this platoon
English soldiers, yet all of carried mixed blood, settled here. Britain now has a great chance different types. The English area Do you realise that Britain was under "This," says Siberla. "The Gec of their Roman influence for hundreds of mens try to claim race-purity--which
to exploit the half-heartedness mixed
obviously
of an nation.
one race. That is
years?
is in any case absurd, since no raco is pure. Only a fool would claim it.
war-weary glories."
"Mind tha sen," snys Simpson, "Then came Saxons, Then came We are apt to think of Major Jack Dempsey. "I'm
who, if words were blows, would be Vikings-Norwegion, Swedish, Dane, England, however, may boost of
no mixed Icelandic. Then came
Normans its perfectly-balanced blending. That Quilling 29 the first of race."
Scandinavian, French.
is better just as good old whiskey Is “ better than raw spirit. Europe's traitors. He was not.
"The English," says Siberia, "are "Add to that a lot of Celt, and Benito Mussolini was a "Quis- a blend of bloods. Blood, like you get the English mixture. It has "So England has the doggedness ling" when the name of Quisling whisky or tobacco, needs to be been sweetened in bond for Ü long and subtlety of Phoenica, the firm- was unknown outside Norway-blended, so that it combines the time, and it is now a blend.
ness and the discipline of unclent Rome; the honesty of the Saxons; the except to the men of Himmler's virtues of several different places.
"But looking round this but I can mud courage of the raiding Vikings Gestapo.
"The Ancient Britons were see some of the old ingredients all boiled down. And very nice,
Outside!" calls a Sergeant,
and
Four years ago Mussolinisies of savage. For a long time which never have worked completely too. Phoenicians traded with them, in. sacrificed the national interests und left thele blood In Britaltı.
we go out, in time to hear the huge of the Italian people by hitching! "You still see black-eyed, hook- "The Tall Boy from Sunderland drone of an All Clear, which sounds
Devon and has nosed Semille types in
the his warron to Hitler's star. Ger- Cornwall and
perfect
Scandinavian ikke the hum of something-perhaps even nat
Asintie physique and head and complexion, the world-spinning rather too fast man domination of Europe spelt names of places, like Marazion. Call him Svale and put him in for comfort.
the end of Italy's existence as ant independent European State.
The growth of German power a country where anti-Semithm was with the present situation in Italy, will realise that Mussolini has be- has meant that Italy's trade has unknown, compelling his people to fitter made good use of his oppor- trayed- Italy, as. Quisling betrayed
sacrifice butter for guns.
tunities. In France there was suS- been steadily driven from one
picion of Great Britain, though the Norway. South-Eastern European country The evidence of the Greek cam- dislike of certain sections of French
· Great Opportunity after another. Hungary, which polgh suggests that the heart of the opinion for France's British Ally was Italian people is not in Mussolini's not comparable to the hatred which once looked to Italy, is to-day war. The Italian Alpin! have a good the average Italian has always felt If the Greek advance should com- little more than a German reputation ពដ mountain Bghters for the Germans. There was war-pel Mussolini to withdraw a part of "Protectorate.". Independent They were far better equipped than weariness in France, and It was his Albanian garrison, the arrival in Austria, which was regarded by the Greeks. Yet Italian arms have stimulated by the Germans victories. Italy of tens of thousands of de- moralised soldiers will have an in- the Italians as a bulwark against suffered a reverse far more humillat-
Ing than Caporetto.
Hitler exploited this favourable calculable effect upon Italian opinion. Germán expansion, is to-day a
position by a Judlelous application of
If Hitler sends troops through Italy War-weariness has no doubt played propaganda and military strength. German "gau.” And the Nazis
Its part, for the Italian people, be- While his tanks and his dive-bombers to the relief of Albania, Italy will be sneeringly refer to Mussolini as fore ever it embarked upon the strug pounded France's defences, his pro- as much an "occupied country" as "Gauleiter of Italy."
Ale against Great Britain, had been pagandiste daily warned the French Norway, occupied with the consent uninterruptedly at war for threa and that England was prepared to fight and approval of the Italian Quisling. a half years, from the autumn
Germany to the last Frenchman." 1935 to the spring of 1939. They may Every Iriding grievance was exploit-
Pro-British
The Hallong are fighting for an
For a centory, the Italian people perhaps teflect, when they rend of ed. The French soldier was never Ally who regards them as a second- Have been pro-British and anti-Ger- Senor Suner's journeys to Berlin and allowed to forget that the British rate people, destined to play the same Was several times part as the vassal-states of Slovakia or Rumania in Hitler's "New Order" man. They were still pro-British and Berchtesgaden, that, they fought in Tommy's pay anti-German when Hitler's, little Spain to establish not Italian but higher than his own,
Germany has her eyes on the former dog", declared war on Great Britain German Influence there. A Quia
As the Italians come to realise the Austriad port of Trieste, Moreover on June 10, 1940. They hatt no wish Jing's lot is not a happy one,
magnitude of the Albanian disaster, the British Government is preparing the raw material at Britain's disposal to make the vast stocks of food which will be quite as valuable aa that are accumulating oversens, available which liter exploited so successfully to those European countries which in France. More and more falfans throw off Hiller's yoke,
to see their country playing the con- Hitler's Method
temptible part of Europe's carrion
crow.
Slavishly, Mussolini' has followed in
Confronted by a state of affairs in Illier's footsteps, persecuting Jews in France which had much in common
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