A Rome broadcast seeking to stir up anti-British feeling among the Arabs today attacked the United States as a country “which restricts the entry of Asiatic races such as the Arabs and Japanese” and which “supports the policy of Jewish emigration to Palestine.” The broadcaster urged Arabs to rise against Britain which is “ousting the Arabs from their fatherland and has placed Palestine at the disposal of the sons of Israel.”
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