Iraq Coup Seen As Anti-british

The recent coup which unseated the Iraq Government was not anti-Jewish but anti-British, declares the Prager Tageblat.

“The change in Iraq is the sign of a threatening development which must force England, on the one hand, to look for new allies, and on the other hand to proceed more energetically,” the paper said. “During the last three years, German activities have greatly increased in Iraq as a result of German aspiration for expansion.”

Declaring that the course of recent events was “determined by German and Italian propaganda,” the paper said that the Iraq Nationalists opposed England because “her independence is stifled by England.” The paper adds that “England seems to have decided in the eleventh hour in favor of a ‘strong’ policy” and “the concentration of troops in Palestine thus appears in a new light.”