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“...GREAT BRITAIN
AND THE EAST
INCORPORATING “ THE NEAR EAST AND INDIA.’’
Telegrams:
Eastaprox, Westcent, London-
Telephone:
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. 1,490.—VOL. LUI.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 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................ 461
LEADING ARTICLES—
Nazi Propaganda ............. 463
Hindu-Muslim...”
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“...which, it is alleged, may sooner or later find expression in an attack not only upon Turkey but also upon the whole Middle East—the argument being, presumably, that it was Britain who instigated Turkish resistance to Russian demands and Britain which must suffer the consequence, by the destruction of her influence in the Middle East.
Berlin fills in this fanciful picture with details which the Nazis find it so easy to invent—decorative stories to the effect that there are 30,000 Indian troops in Iraq already, that Kuwait has been made a fortified naval base, that General Weygand is preparing a vast expeditionary force composed primarily of French and Arab troops, and so forth.
Constancy of Turkish Policy
This interpretation and these decorations, it need hardly be said, are preposterous. Turkey acted as she did in the conversations which M. Sarajoglou had in Moscow with one thought uppermost in her mind— the conservation of Turkish interests. Turkish policy has been absolutely constant. For...”
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“...the Holy Land of nearly four years should now be forgotten. It may be too much to hope that the political hatchet be buried until a final settlement has been reached, and a period of war can hardly be auspicious for formulating
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HOSTEL
such a settlement. But tranquillity to a very large extent— one might say, almost entirely—has been restored to the land. Restrictions on transport, imposed for the purpose of guaranteeing public safety, have now been largely removed, and other measures facilitating the normal progress of public life have been introduced as a result of the extensive improvement in security. For that reason, it is safe to assume that...”
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“...persuaded Kemal Pasha to spare the hospital and supply it with food for four years, while famine raged around, is a stirring story.
But if the political difficulties are less, the responsibilities are greater, for the hospital is now five times as large. Government grants have been cut down, and reliance will have to be placed, more than before, on the payments of private patients, and funds from Europe and elsewhere. Such patients come not only from Syria and the Lebanon, but from Egypt, Palestine, Iraq and other neighbouring countries. A number of British have been under treatment during the year.
A New Department
There has now been added a department of occupational therapy under an expert. The “ Scott-Moncrieff Hall for Occupational Therapy,” built in memory of the late Lady Colin Scott-Moncrieff, a member of the London Committee, was completed in the spring. Already much medical benefit has followed from this gift, apart from the lively interest and pleasure which it has brought into the...”
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