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Town Journal. (1940). v 47. Pathfinder. United States: Farm Journal, Incorporated, pp. 3,4,12.
March 16, 1940:
ARMIES IN THE NEAR EAST - A Possible Locale for Act II in the War
...Four Classification
The countries which make up this possible theater of war divide up into these classifications: (1) the Allies' friend (Turkey); (2) French - controlled (Syria); (3) British - owned or dominated (Palestine, Transjordan, Egypt, Iraq, and such small states as Aden, Oman, Hadramaut); and (4) the independents (Saudi Arabia, Iran).
Turkey lives in two worlds. A European power, though only a fraction of her 294,416 square miles are in Europe, she is a leader in the Balkan Entente. But Turkey also is Near Eastern, having a non-aggression pact with Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan - all possible points of German-Russian attack. In the First World War, Turkey was on Germany's side . But in the current war, it has leaned strongly to the Allied side, calling itself "not neutral, but only non-belligerent for the moment."
Bordering on Russia, it controls the entrance to the Black Sea, and has a tough, well-trained army of 350,000 which can be expanded over- lnight to a million men.
Just as in the Balkans, Turkey is a key power in the Near East, allied militarily with France and Britain.
The rest of the Near Eastern line - up follows:
• French Mandated Syria was once part of the Ittoms Enpire, grabbed by France as a spoils of the last war. The whole area is run by a French commisioner and the French Army. Stationed in it are from 275,000 to 300,000 men under command of General Weygand, former commissioner.
...Troubled Palestine.
• British - Mandated Palestine and Transjordan, likewise former parts of the Ottoman Empire, are contrasts. Transjordan gives the British so little trouble that its 34,740 square desert miles are policed by less than 1,600 men.
Palestine, on the other hand, in its 10,492 square miles (slightly larger than Vermont) packs more concentrated hatred than any other section of the Near East. This hatred exists between the Arabs and Jews and springs from a deep-rooted dispute as to which group has first claim on the region as a home land. The Arabs, who are Semitic themselves but who hate the Jews for their prosperity and who fear they would dominate any Palestine self-government, rise sporadically against them.
Palestine's Arabs admire Hitler for his Jew - baiting. In event of war on the Near Eastern Front, Arab uprisings could be embarrassing. To ease the situation, Britain last October halted Jewish immigration to Palestine , which is still run by a British commissioner. Two
weeks ago Britain forbade the sale of any more Arab land to the Jews.
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Hitler's Reference To Palestine Excites Arabs. - Page 1
Lawrence Journal-World · Sep 13, 1938.
Arab reaction today to Adolf Hitler's references to Palestine foreshadowed increased resistance in this troubled British mandate. "Now we are not without friends in Europe," an Arab spokesman said. "Our ultimate success as a nation lies In the hands of Hitler and Mussolini and not in Britain and France."
This was one response to Hitler's assertion at Nurnberg yesterday that "poor Arabs aro defenseless and left in the lurch."
March 16, 1940:
ARMIES IN THE NEAR EAST - A Possible Locale for Act II in the War
...Four Classification
The countries which make up this possible theater of war divide up into these classifications: (1) the Allies' friend (Turkey); (2) French - controlled (Syria); (3) British - owned or dominated (Palestine, Transjordan, Egypt, Iraq, and such small states as Aden, Oman, Hadramaut); and (4) the independents (Saudi Arabia, Iran).
Turkey lives in two worlds. A European power, though only a fraction of her 294,416 square miles are in Europe, she is a leader in the Balkan Entente. But Turkey also is Near Eastern, having a non-aggression pact with Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan - all possible points of German-Russian attack. In the First World War, Turkey was on Germany's side . But in the current war, it has leaned strongly to the Allied side, calling itself "not neutral, but only non-belligerent for the moment."
Bordering on Russia, it controls the entrance to the Black Sea, and has a tough, well-trained army of 350,000 which can be expanded over- lnight to a million men.
Just as in the Balkans, Turkey is a key power in the Near East, allied militarily with France and Britain.
The rest of the Near Eastern line - up follows:
• French Mandated Syria was once part of the Ittoms Enpire, grabbed by France as a spoils of the last war. The whole area is run by a French commisioner and the French Army. Stationed in it are from 275,000 to 300,000 men under command of General Weygand, former commissioner.
...Troubled Palestine.
• British - Mandated Palestine and Transjordan, likewise former parts of the Ottoman Empire, are contrasts. Transjordan gives the British so little trouble that its 34,740 square desert miles are policed by less than 1,600 men.
Palestine, on the other hand, in its 10,492 square miles (slightly larger than Vermont) packs more concentrated hatred than any other section of the Near East. This hatred exists between the Arabs and Jews and springs from a deep-rooted dispute as to which group has first claim on the region as a home land. The Arabs, who are Semitic themselves but who hate the Jews for their prosperity and who fear they would dominate any Palestine self-government, rise sporadically against them.
Palestine's Arabs admire Hitler for his Jew - baiting. In event of war on the Near Eastern Front, Arab uprisings could be embarrassing. To ease the situation, Britain last October halted Jewish immigration to Palestine , which is still run by a British commissioner. Two
weeks ago Britain forbade the sale of any more Arab land to the Jews.
===
Hitler's Reference To Palestine Excites Arabs. - Page 1
Lawrence Journal-World · Sep 13, 1938.
Arab reaction today to Adolf Hitler's references to Palestine foreshadowed increased resistance in this troubled British mandate. "Now we are not without friends in Europe," an Arab spokesman said. "Our ultimate success as a nation lies In the hands of Hitler and Mussolini and not in Britain and France."
This was one response to Hitler's assertion at Nurnberg yesterday that "poor Arabs aro defenseless and left in the lurch."
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