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“...GREAT BRITAIN
AND THE
EAST
INCORPORATING: THE NEAR EAST AND INDIA
A WEEKLY REVIEW: EST ABU SHED 1911
No. 1573—Vol. LVII.
Registered at the G.P.O. as a Newspaper
THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1941.
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SPECIAL FEATURES
Eclipse of Vichy’s Star in Syria
By KENNETH WILLIAMS
Changes in the German Technique
By J. M. BEE
The Charge of Exploitation
By SIR ALFRED WATSON
Indian Summer School
Nazi Vital Space—Cartoon
Restoration of Confidence in Iraq
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“...casualties, mainly prisoners. Not until the war has
been carried deep into Italy itself will the average English-
man feel that Italy has been given her due.
The Outlook in Iran
Students of affairs in the Middle East who have become
aware of the activity of the many Nazi agents in Iran and
Iraq would be surprised if after the great disappointment
of Nazi hopes in Syria there was not an endeavour to stir
up trouble farther East. Happily the control that has now
been established in Syria sets up a barrier that makes either
of those countries much less approachable.
That German agents are intensifying their efforts to
occasion trouble is as certain as that our own people are
watchful of their efforts. Iraq has been made safe, and
the manner in which we moved into that country was
evidence enough that we were aware in time of what was
afoot. Iran is scarcely likely to prove a more promising
field of intrigue.
General Wavell has now arrived in India and taken up
his duties there as Commander-in-Chief...”
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“...stands
for. The Syrians, who have waited so long, will assuredly
show a little more patience, until the necessary formalities
are completed and they enjoy the treaty that has been
unequivocally pledged to them. In the last- few trying
weeks they have done well and acted circumspectly. It is
to be hoped that they will continue to proffer cool counsel
and to practise wise restraint.
The stars looked down on Syria. Gone is the ugly threat
which reared its head at the time of the Rashid Ali affair
in Iraq. Ejected is the Vichy influence which gave to that
threat the chance of realisation. But there has been a
great surging of thought in Syria, and matters will doubt-
less have to be carefully watched, lest a thwarted Nazi
power endeavours yet again to disturb the Arab world. The
Syrians are on their trial, as men who can keep their poise
in a still distracted universe. They have the chance to
prove themselves men of foresight and capable of appreci-
ating the fact that a policy of waiting has won...”
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“...Great Britain and the East.
July 17, 1941.
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OVERSEA CORRESPONDENCE
Restoration of Confidence in Iraq
{From our Baghdad Correspondent')
Delayed in transmission.
The Midfai Government has succeeded in three weeks
in restoring the situation to a great extent.
It will be recalled that on April 30, after the flight of
.Rashid Ali and his confederates, a deputation headed by
the Lord Mayor of Baghdad arrived at the “besieged”
British Embassy with a request for an armistice. This
deputation represented a Committee of Public Security
which acted in the interregnum between the two Govern-
ments. But there was an unfortunate delay. Many had
thought that the returning Regent would have brought his
Cabinet ready-made with him, but this turned out not
to be so and twenty-four hours elapsed before the final
choice was made.
As always in Baghdad, since time immemorial, there
were disorders in the absence of a central authority. After
a few hours the army took control and the trouble was
over. A new...”
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