A Cairo dispatch to the News-Chronicle said today that moves were under way to create a coalition of Arab states in the Near East which would “present a united front to any attempts by Italy or Germany to use the conquest of Albania as a starting point for further aggression in the Mediterranean.” The newspaper’s special correspondent reported that Tuesday’s visit to Cairo by Dr. Weizmann was interpreted in well-informed quarters as a preliminary move in that direction.
“Palestine,” the correspondent said, “is recognized by the leaders of the Arab states as the weakest link in the proposed defensive chain. The activities of Arab terrorists in Palestine — offering as they do an excellent opportunity for Italian and German propaganda — must be ended before Palestine can effectively take its place in the defense scheme.”
Conviction that the Palestine problem is not insoluble was expressed in The Times today by Ismail de Yorke, chairman of the Moslem Society of Great Britain. “Now that the dictators have demonstrated their real intentions toward Islam,” he declared, “the time is ripe for a practical, statemanlike gesture by Britain to Islam.”
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