Hitler’s Denunciation of Mandates Awaits Rome’s Action in Near East, London Hears

HITLER’S EXPECTED STEP IN DENOUNCING THE MANDATE SYSTEM AND LAYING FORMAL CLAIM TO THE FORMER GERMAN COLONIAL POSSESSIONS IS BEING POSTPONED WHILE BERLIN WAITS FOR ITALY TO PROCEED FURTHER TO UNSETTLE THE SITUATION IN THE NEAR EAST, A PRIVATE NEWS SERVICE REPORTS HERE.

THE NEWS SERVICE DECLARED THAT THIS IS THE BELIEF HELD BY THE BRITISH FOREIGN AND COLONIAL OFFICES. “THE REASON THEY THINK THE RUMORED PRONOUNCEMENT FROM BERLIN KEEPS BEING POSTPONED IS THAT BERLIN IS WAITING FOR ITALY — AND PERHAPS IBN SAUD — TO GET FURTHER AHEAD WITH THE ‘PREPARATION OF PRESSURE’ IN THE NEAR EAST AND LEVANT,” THE NEWS SERVICE DECLARES.

IT ASSERTS THAT BRITISH OFFICIALS ARE WORRIED THAT REAL TROUBLE MIGHT BREAK OUT IN TRANSJORDAN, WITH SUPPORT FROM IBN SAUD AND THE YEMEN, AND THAT THE PAN-ISLAMIC MOVEMENT MIGHT, AT THE SAME TIME, CREATE TROUBLE IN EGYPT. IN THAT CASE, THE REPORT CONTINUES, THE THREE POWERS UNITED IN THE ANTI-COMINTERN PACT MIGHT DECLARE THAT THE TROUBLE WAS DUE TO COMMUNIST AGITATION AND THAT “INTERVENTION TO SAVE EUROPE FROM BOLSHEVISM” WOULD BE MADE NECESSARY.

OFFICIAL CIRCLES HERE RIDICULE THE ASSERTION THAT THESE VIEWS ARE HELD BY THE GOVERNMENT AND PROFESS TO HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF MUSSOLINI’S ALLEGED INTENTION TO DENOUNCE THE PALESTINE MANDATE.