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“...GREAT BRITAIN AND THE EAST
INCORPORATING “ THE NEAR EAST AND INDIA.”
T elegrams :
Eastaprox, Westcent, London-
T elephone :
Holborn 8254.
A Weekly Rev iew 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. 1,487.—VOL. LUI. z THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 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).
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NOTES OF THE WEEK.................. 413
LEADING ARTICLES—
Italy and the Balkans ... ... 415 ’
Hitler at Bay...”
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“...actions the like of which have certainly been known in Nazi Germany. Indeed, the Nazis have supplied an intriguing picture of what public life in the Middle East might have been like had they occupied the position held by the British therein.
The Nazi radio experts have declared, for instance, that the British murdered King Faisal of Iraq, stating that he died of poisoned coffee. They have asserted that the death of King Ghazi of Iraq was similarly arranged by the British and that proof of the origin of the deed was supplied by the Iraqis themselves, who subsequently stoned to death the British Consul at Mosul. They have averred that the erstwhile “ Dictator” of Iraq, General Bakir Sidqi, had his life cut short by the British. They have proclaimed that an attempt was made by the British the other day on the life of King Farouk of Egypt. And they have suggested that this art of murder is no newly acquired cult, since the British were responsible nearly two decades ago for the death of Ibn Rashid...”
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“...Great Britain and the East.
November 23, 1939.
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“...Cairo, left Egypt at the beginning of November for Iraq, where he will spend a few months at the request of the British Council, who have asked him to open a club in Baghdad under the auspices of the Ministry of Social Affairs of Iraq. Mr. Martin Blake, assistant representative of the British Council in the Near East, will act as director of the Cairo Institute in the absence of Mr. Highwood.
Dr. Charles C. Adams has been appointed to succeed Dr. R. S. McClenahan as Dean of the School of Oriental Studies at the American University, Cairo.
Mr. John M. Montgomery, assistant private secretary to the High Commissioner in Palestine, has been appointed private secretary to the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Cyprus, Mr. William D. Battershill, C.M.G.
Mr. J. E. O’Brien Echlin, O.B.E., Inspector of Irrigation in the hydraulic section of the Egyptian Ministry of Public Works, resigned his post last month in order to take up a position in the Iraq Irrigation Department, and is leaving for Baghdad...”
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