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TIME may have its blind spots, but the Middle East is not one of them. And this is especially refreshing at a time when so many otherwise well-intentioned and well-informed publications are cajoled or cowed into confusion on the Arab-Israel issue. So congratulations for your courageous reprinting of the little Jewish Newsletter's editorial exposing Zionist hysteria...
...incredible announcement (on June 14, 1941) warnings of a German attack on Russia were being put out by "the forces arrayed against the Soviet Union and the Great German Reich," Indians were fighting and dying alongside British, Australian, French and other comrades to protect Egypt and the Arab world and to set Ethiopia free. An obscure party employee in those days, [Khrushchev] was probably never allowed to know that Stalin did not even acknowledge Mr. Churchill's repeated warnings of the impending Nazi attack. A devout ignoramus today, he would be the last man to heed the thought that...
...danger is such that peace at the Israeli-Arab borders demands something more than the reiteration of already existing guarantees or mixed Soviet-NATO patrols. It demands a few battalions of U.S. Marines, plus proportionate contingents from NATO allies-enough troops to keep an active watch so that no attack is launched by either side...
...policy; it halted the drift toward the formation of a Communist popular front in France; and Russia's new anti-Western bellicosity might well reawaken those drowsy Europeans whose tensions had got relaxed. Against these losses had to be set what Russia hoped to gain in the uncommitted Arab-Asian lands...
...invoked his father's stern Moslem laws to repress them. To Philby, who saw Ibn Saud's tribesmen sweep the deserts in their puritanical Wahhabi zeal and fury, this is the surest sign of the regime's decay and advancing doom. Says he: "The fountain of Arab chivalry has been fouled with oil; and the mouths of the preachers and the prophets have been stopped with gold . . . Where virtue reigned on a scale which some may have thought exaggerated, wealth has become the only criterion of merit . . . The common thief still forfeits his hand, the common adulterer...