The inspired Reich press is seeking to add to Britain’s far Eastern worries by picturing an incipient Near Eastern Arab revolt, it was reported today from Berlin by the Havas News Agency.
The concerted anti-British tone taken by the German newspapers strengthened reports in well-informed sources that Germany has launched a diplomatic and propaganda campaign to warn the Arab nations against alleged Turkish imperialist designs on her Southern neighbors. The anti-Turkish drive has become part of Berlin’s strategy since Ankara aligned herself with the European peace front via a mutual assistance agreement with Britain.
The German press featured an Italian newspaper report that the Emir Feisal, son of King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, had delivered an ultimatum to Britain in his father’s name threatening a rupture of relations between Saudi Arabia and Britain if the Palestine question were not rapidly solved to satisfaction of the Arabs.
At the same time, the Nazi newspapers stressed that Italian political circles attached the highest importance to the lengthy talk Chancellor Adolf Hitler had on Saturday with Royal Counciller Kjalid Al Hud, a special envoy from King Ibn Saud, at the Fuehrer’s Berghof villa near Berchtesgaden.
The Boersen Zeitung spread in a banner headline: “With Ibn Saud’s special envoy the movement (of hostility to Britain) extends to the Near East also. Rome takes a stand on the Arab visit to the Fuehrer.”
The newspaper then quoted a passage from the Lavoro Fascista, saying that “Ibn Saud’s envoy’s visit to the Fuehrer shows that while the British Colonial Minister (Malcolm MacDonald) was discussing his plan for settling the Palestine problem, the Saudi Arabian king deemed it useful to negotiate with the axis powers.”
Meanwhile, it was disclosed that an uncle of King Feisel II of Iraq had been in Berlin recently on what was described as a private visit.
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