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| | Italy also committed to the Mufti in a letter from Foreign Minister Count Ciano ― to provide the Arab countries with all assistance in their war of liberation, to recognize their sovereignty and independence, to agree to a federation, if the interested parties so desire, and to abolish the Jewish National Home.</blockquote> | | Italy also committed to the Mufti in a letter from Foreign Minister Count Ciano ― to provide the Arab countries with all assistance in their war of liberation, to recognize their sovereignty and independence, to agree to a federation, if the interested parties so desire, and to abolish the Jewish National Home.</blockquote> |
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| | + | [[File:Hitler - Arabs' 'strong man' 1942.jpg|thumb|File:Hitler - Arabs' 'strong man' 1942]] |
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| | + | As [[Rommel]] was pushing into Egypt, noted<ref> [https://www.americanairmuseum.com/archive/person/paul-manning Paul Manning | American Air Museum]. |
| | + | Topping, Simon. Northern Ireland, the United States and the Second World War. United Kingdom, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2GxWEAAAQBAJ&pg=PP65 Ch. 4]. |
| | + | Writing for the Newspaper Enterprise Agency (NEA), Paul Manning, a CBS journalist and associate of Edward Murrow.</small ></blockquote></ref> journalist Paul Manning, writing for the Newspaper Enterprise Agency (NEA), in July 1942, that the British admit fifth colum on Egypt is a serious Near East 'Rearguard' threat.:<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=KXlDAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA3 Middlesboro Daily News, Jul 1, 1942. |
| | + | "British Admit Fifth Colum In Egypt Is Serious Near East 'Rearguard' Threat." |
| | + | [https://books.google.com/books?id=MWVeAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA4 Lawrence Journal-World, Jul 2, 1942] · |
| | + | "Fifth Column in Egypt Admitted By British to be Serious Rareguard Threat in Nile Delta."</ref><blockquote> |
| | + | Arabs like blood and thunder. |
| | + | In Cairo, their reasons take a different, turn. Although the city is a boom town, due to the millions which British interests and troops have poured into the place since war began, the Egyptian man-in-the-street takes a malicious delight in watching the British take a few on the chin. Yet, like the Irish of Dublin, who feel the same way, they actually do want England to win this war. |
| | + | In Syria and Palestine, where Hitler may one day move, sympathy for the axis among the Arabs is due to another reason. Their centuries-old heritage is an understanding of the "strong man" who maintains power by blood and the sword. King Ibn Saud, a despot having life and death power over millions, is largely respected and loved by his Arab subjects. |
| | + | They sense in Hitler a similarity, as they listen to broadcasts in Arabic from Zeesen, Germany.</blockquote> |
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