Pan-Arabic ambitions have declined since the beginning of the war, declares Sonia Tomara in a Jerusalem dispatch to the New York Herald Tribune. The popularity of the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, who led the terrorist campaign in Palestine, has fallen, the correspondent said.
“It would be incorrect to say that either the Arabs or the Jews are satisfied with the present regime,” the dispatch said, “In conversations I had with their leaders during my recent trip through Lebanon, Syria proper and Palestine, they all expressed their grievances about the French and British, sometimes in violent terms. But they admitted that these grievances would have to wait until the end of the war. They also agreed that if they had to choose rulers they would prefer France and Britain to Germany and Italy.”
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