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...Arab Contribution...
Your statement in TIME (Aug. 28) that "The Arab peoples still had done next to nothing to win favors at the peace table" is most unfair. You seem to have forgotten that Iraq, an Arab country, has declared war on the Axis Powers voluntarily, and has since contributed in every way to the war effort. It is a base for our Allies, and all the country's economy, manpower, communication, and transportation have been used to defeat the common enemy. The people have endured all hardships without complaint...
Problems. No one knew better than the three men how great were the obstacles confronting any architects of Arab unity: the dynastic rivalries of the Middle East, its feudal economies, the age-old jealousy between the men of the desert (Bedouin) and of the city (effendi). And there is the ever-present prickly problem of the Jewish and Christian minorities...
...Lebanese Christians who fear engulfment in a Moslem bloc, the Greater Syria plan offers a "privileged" regime. To the 600,000 Jews of Palestine the plan promises "semi-autonomy" inside the larger Arab framework, with Jewish local government in predominantly Jewish areas (e.g., Tel-Aviv), but Arab government elsewhere...
Prospects. Great Britain, principal partner in all Arab enterprises in the Middle East, once looked favorably on the idea of Arab unity, which might have buttressed Arab loyalty to the Crown in the dark days when Rommel was at El Alamein. Now latest reports had it that the British approved only religious, cultural and economic ties, would frown on wartime political unions...