POLITICAL WARFARE

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 34, 4 November 1942, Page 5

POLITICAL WARFARE

British Appointment In Middle East LONDON, November 2. Mr. P. C. Vellacott, D. 5.0., has been appointed Director of Political Warfare in the Middle Hast. He is a master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and was formerly headmaster of Harrow, and is 51 years old. The post is a new one. Upon returning from a tour of the Middle East, Mr. Casey, Minister of State for the Middle East, said: “I am convinced that the Iraqui and Persian Governments are thoroughly impressed with the need for taking measures to ensure and maintain economic stability. We are preparing to meet the enemy’s threat to tlie approach to the Middle East from tlie Caucasus. Tlie Aral) countries, in their own interests, will have to work closely with the United Nations for the achievement of a better world.” “The cause of the United Nations is tlie cause of the Arabs,” declared tlie Regent of Iraq in opening Parliament. “We have expressed confidence in the explicit promise from our ally, Britain, through the mouths of Mr. Churchill and Mr. Eden, of eventual independence for those Arab countries whose independence is being delayed.”