ARAB & JEW

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 January 1941, Page 7

ARAB & JEW

4, FREEDOM BASED UPON BRITAIN ' SUPPORT FOR EMPIRES CAUSE I POSITION IN SYRIA <By a Staff Correspondent of ! "The Christian Science Monitor.’’) CAIRO. October 28. 1940

j As the Arabs of- Syria anti Palestine ■ view the war moving into Greece and I nearing the:r own territory, they reali iso that defence of their own freedom i is intimately bound up with support of I the British cause. This fact emerged clearly as this corrcspojideiu made a ) tour i f Syria and Palestine inquiring I into the \ ictvs of Arabs and Jews alike s Both the Arabs mid the Jews, who l .have been vuluntarily supporting the ■ British and Dominion forces, have exi pressed disappnintmeisi that Britain i did not strike in Syria the mojuent that i France capitulated and immediately : removed .di danger from this quarter. However, realisation th,at Britain is f complete master of the Eastern Meds- : ■.vrranr.'in convinces them that such • action is [mssible whenever desirable. ' In Syria business seems normal os: I the surface, m-tnifesimg few signs thad i underneath is a seething cauldron of : mtr:iim, with Signm Mussolini's arm I -stna- emnmismm doing ail possible u I stir up trouble But hitherto they have tchwwd l.ttio .mici.-i.s-, because of up ion fioit-s tb.e supjmrlet's of Gen- • -r.il (.'iinrh - ii<- G;iu!!» s Ft'«.-e French irgam-’-at .on! fr.-m riims anxious A.d. i>. m J from the J'urks Evidf-rwe of de Gaulbsm ;» shown in ■hr cheorfui snulv bestowed upon i British pgs-spoi' bo•ldi.-r by mmimrr >bh- Frvm h tru- <m heivdy barn caiird r-snls m ‘mm- whispered Viv* Appeals cb.'iiiird on walls tlgh* 'i-i Fire Fr,met- and an unconcealed rim tempt toward the tier Indian gen- < r:ils wh<» are conducting their missjor i further strengthen this viewpoint. Tm ugh it is more difficult to trace dir aciivitn-i. of the Syrian independ m-c move;!-,-m because of the deeply ci .ct nature . ' thr Sy : t.ms it is gen-. ■ lly -iff A ■- m''>rm>d circles’ tha' the tnovcnumt has ■■ highly powt-rfu' i ' ->■ ■ ■: i. ■ tih Fui key A r.-i-.i!,!-- Auk.,: ..m. •■ even g ov ; • ■'.■ ... *. -. i.,•, ’..,. ’.Pat .iii elabi.r.iti* | o- ■ c : ’ !.<■ • r:: . <2 a •..!rate,'; I t district ii I ..... . ...... . • 1 ' : W’ i . '■ ■■ ■ a i’■<■:.cl v ; . j ’ ■ ’ 'I j | ,V•’ ■ ■ ■ . , ? : ' ,n i