ARAB EMIR IN ENGLAND

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 142, 11 March 1919, Page 4

ARAB EMIR IN ENGLAND

THE FUTURE OF SYRIA.' Prinoe Feisul, the Arab Emir, who was recently in England, was interviewed by a representative of Reuter's Agency. Invited to say something on the subject of Zionist aspirations in , regard to Palestine, the Emir said: "The two main branches of the Semitic family, Arabs and Jews, understand one another, and I hope that as a result of interchange of ideas at the Peace Conference, which will be guided by ideals of selfdetermination and nationality, each nation will make definite progress towards the realisation of its aspirations. Arabs are not jealous of Zionist Jews and intend to give them fairplay, and the Zionist Jews have nssured the Nationalist Arabs of their intention to see that they too have just treatment in their respective areas. Turkish intrigue in Palestine has raised jealousy between tho Jewish colonists and the local peasants, but the mutual understanding of the aims .of Arabs and Jews will at once clear away the last trace of this former bitterness, which indeed had already practically disappeared, even before the war, thanks to the work of the Arab Secret Revolutionary Committee, which in Syria and elsewhere laid the foundation of the Arab military successes of the past two years."