A campaign to acquaint the American people with the “imminent dangers and anti-democratic implications of the British policy of appeasement toward the Arab world whose present leaders were among Hitler’s most fanatic supporters during the war,” was announced by Dean Alfange, chairman of the American Christian Palestine Committee of New York, at a press conference today.
In a brochure entitled “The Arab War Effort, “the committee points out that Dr. Fadhil al Jamali, president of the Arab League and Foreign Minister of Iraq “prepared the ground” for the pro-Nazi Iraq revolt in 1941 which threatened Allied communications in the Middle East. It also draws attention to the activities of the exMufti of Jerusalem including a broadcast to Arabs in the U.S. asking them to sabotage the American war effort. Listed among the many Arab leaders who either aided the Iraq revolt or publicly supported it are included the heads of several Arab states and prominent cabinet ministers and functionaries in Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
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