“We must be on our guard against the dictators and watch vigilantly over our independence,” the newspaper Iraq (independent) warned today in an editorial which mirrored the concern felt in Moslem circles over the Italian conquest of Albania. The Iraq, published both in English and Arabic, violently condemned the expansionist aims of the Rome-Berlin axis and expressed fears that the progressive occupation of the smaller European states would be only a prelude to a German-Italian march toward Turkey and the Arab kingdoms of the Near East.
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