“arab Government” Established in Berlin with Ex-mufti As Premier, London Reports

An”Arab Government” with the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem as Premier, has been set up by the Nazis in Berlin, according to information published here today in the London Tribune, a left-wing weekly publication, of which Sir Stafford Cripps was one of the editors until recently.

A proclamation issued by this “government” to the Arab world promises the Arabs that “when the day of the Axis powers will come, the eight million Arabs in the Middle East will be given their chance to launch programs against the British and the Jews in the same way as this was done in Hong Kong.” The Arab”government” in Berlin includes Rashid Ali of Iraq as “foreign minister” and Fawzi Kaukaji, Arab terrorist, as “war minister.

Commenting on the formation by the Nazis of the “Mufti Cabinet,” the Tribune declares in an editorial that “this is the fruit of twenty years of British appeasement.” It points out that each of the three pro-Nazi Arabs would have not been dangerous today had the ex-Mufti not enjoyed the backing of British officials who allowed him to build up his own power in the course of seventeen years, “on a ruthless Nazi pattern with the help of assassination.”