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“...GREAT BRITAIN
AND THE EAST
INCORPORATING “ THE NEAR EAST AND INDIA.”
Telegrams : Eastaprox, Westcent, London.
T elephone:
Holborn 8254.
A Weekly Review of the Politics, Commerce and Finance of Great Britain (including the British Empire), the Balkans, Turkey, Egypt, the Sudan, Malta, Cyprus, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Arabia, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, India, Federated Malay States, China and Japan.
General Editor : E. A. Mackenzie-Bell.
Editorial Offices:
“ GREAT BRITAIN THE EAST;
133/136, High Holborn,
London, W.C.l.
No. 1,486.—VOL. LIU.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1939.
Established 1911
The aims of this Paper are : the Maintenance of Peace ; the Safeguarding of our imperial Communications ; the Promotion of British Trade ; and the Interpretation of Great Britain (including the British Empire) to the East, and of the East to Great Britain (including the British Empire).
PRINCIPAL CONTENTS
Page
NOTES OF THE WEEK................. 397
LEADING ARTICLES—
“Ten Weeks of War” ........... 399
Need for...”
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“...of the rapprochement which has been reached between the two countries. It is even more significant that there has been a distinct improvement in Turco-Bulgarian relations, for the common front in South-Eastern Europe for which both Turkey and Italy are striving must include Bulgaria if it is to be really effective.
Iraq and Arab Independence
Iraq’s attitude with regard to the position of Arabs in Palestine and Syria was touched on by the Iraqi Prime Minister, General Nuri es-Said, in a speech before the adjournment of Parliament. He pointed out that what Iraq desires is the establishment of independent states in Arab countries on lines similar to the independence enjoyed by Iraq.
During the conflict questions regarding the future can be of little more than academic interest, but the unanimity of both sections in Palestine in support of the democracies is a most hopeful augury for an ultimate settlement that will prove generally satisfactory. There has been ample evidence before the war that...”
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“...increasing self-government was to lead to the independence of Palestine on the model of the independence accorded to Iraq ”—a reading which cannot be supported by any documentary evidence. And in speculating on the attitude of the Middle East towards the European conflict she writes: “If Turkey takes one side, perhaps Iraq may find it expedient to take the other.” It is difficult indeed to imagine how anyone can have made an error such as that. Wisdom before the event is not a wholly unattainable quality.
Nor in the main body of her book is she any more felicitous in avoiding the pitfalls which assail the itinerant journalist. She suggests that the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company did not take up the Bahrain concession because “ the Foreign Office could not wish to put a fresh burden upon ” the Company—a grotesque version. And she speaks of the “ revocation of the American oil concession in Iraq in the summer of 1938 ” when she means Iran.
But it is in her chapter on “ The Arabic World ” that she most...”
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“...speech made in Tokyo by the Ambassador of the United States of America, Mr. Butler said that his Noble Friend was not prepared to lay a White Paper, but accounts of the speech of the United States Ambassador to Japan and of the interview to which the hon. member refers had appeared in the Press. (November 8.)
NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST
“ The Results of our endeavours to secure a just settlement of the Palestine problem are not entirely unsatisfactory,” declared General Nuri es-Said, the Prime Minister of Iraq, in a speech in the Chamber of Deputies. “ As soon as Britain settles the problem of Jewish immigration in a manner acceptable to the Arabs, she will find no difficulty in reassuring them as to her intentions, and in setting up an independent State of Palestine.”
November 11, 1939, is also the day of the Polish people, says the Roumanian newspaper Tim pul in an Armistice Day article. “ In the present difficult circumstances, when powerful disturbances are changing the face of the world,” the newspaper...”
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“...Hollingworth (Mrs. Vanderleur Robinson) left London on November 2 for Roumania, where she will act as honorary' commissioner for the Save the Children Fund.
HOTEL REGISTER
OVERSEAS:—
CYPRUS—
THE MARANGOS HOTELS, CYPRUS
Famagusta: Othello (Marangos) Hotel Kyrenia: Coeur de Lion (Marangos) Hotel Pedoulas: Marangos’ Hotel
Nicosia—
GEORGE HOTEL.
EGYPT—
Alexandria-
HOTEL CECIL.
INDIA—
Darjeeling—
HOTEL MOUNT EVEREST. ’Phone:
90. Tel. Ad.: “ Snows.”
OVERSEAS—Continued
Jodhpur, Rajputana-
STATE HOTEL.
IRAQ—
Baghdad—
RITZ HOTEL, Rashid Street.
ZIA HOTEL.
MALTA—
Valletta-
WESTMINSTER HOTEL, 1 I, Strada Reale.
PALESTINE—
Haifa--
APPINGER’S HOTEL, P.O.B. 506.
Jaffa—
JERUSALEM HOTEL.
OVERSEAS -----Continued
Jerusalem--
AMERICAN COLONY HOSTEL
ST. JULIAN HOTEL, Julian’s Way.
HOTEL FAST, JERUSALEM
A High Class Family Hotel.
Patronised by British Officers and Officials. Centrally situated, with every modern Comfort and Renowned Cuisine.
P.O.B. 529. Tel. Address: “ Fastotel.” Phone: 4334
Tel-Aviv—
YARKON...”
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