ARAB AFFAIRS.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R001300100003-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: August 1, 1948
• Content Type: PREL

For Distribution to U.S. Embassy Personne ~~nly.
EMBASSY OF THE U.S.A.. CAIRC'}-E~YF'T.
SUPTDliY l,,u~ust 1st, 1948.
T.~ZOPi'Dl,Y ;uUus t 2nd, 1948.
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SUATDl,Y 1"~u~us t is 1 194-E .
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Drab llffairs .
!it a press conference hold at the Drab Lca~uc Sccrc-
tariat on July 31st, l~zzaia Kasha riadc a very intcrestin~
statcrient ir. drhich he saic; that thm Palestinian question
coulc? only bo solved by sheer force anc? that England had
let the lirabs doti-m. i~.Iiss Poi c, the Cairo Correspondent of
the English j~al,cr "The Observer" asl~ed the P~.sha if the Iir
of Sir I,1cr~harii lasha~ the Sudanese rcli~ious leader.
S3'~ I,,1~ ~a.dan, rzouthpicco of tho hostile 1'asha~ says that
as no oubt that the l~ssci:ibly elections which is to be
hclcl soon will be rlanipul~tcd. I;1 P:Zisri anti Sawt ~;1~ITr.~:ia
(both lJafdists) give' 's',~ccial l,ror.1 ncnec to the s ory.
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Hovr E~yl~tian firris ~dvcrtize.
I, Cafe called ~1rzoun at Sharia Fouacl t;1 Is~~ia~ l,ut
the follo~=rind advcrtisc~:icnt in l;l l~ssas; ti,~Yiat is tilt
.the secret bohind the fact that oca ola and otl~cr iced
drinks taste ~ cii.ffcrcntly at uffct ~',rioun Sharia Foua~ frog.
an~,,n'nc~rc else?
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. l,zzai:i Pasha scnc~s a cable to
P;Icciiator conccrnin~; Jcrusalcri,
!~l T~ssas pu'alishes the f ohoGrin~ text of ~ cable
sent by ~.zzca~ asha to Count Hcrnadottc datc~'~ July 31st
conccrnin~; the dcrsilitarization of Jcrusalcrl; "I Trish tc
ez.iph~sizc what 2 tole' you already durint; our recent rioc-
~3z~~,s -that the i,rab countries a~rcc to a continuous cessa-
tion of fi~?htin~' in Jcrusalcri uvith a vieva to kccpin~ this
Ho7.y City out of the dispute, provided the l,osition of t~. c
lLrabs and their rights as yrcll as the status of this Cit~,~
aro not affected in the final scttlcr~cnt of the ~alestin~
question. I vrish also to assure you that this air:1 cannot b~
achiovcd unloss the other .arty cxl resses his roac:iileSs riot
to attack the Holy City or cn;;a~;c in i:~ilitary or sci:ii-r.>.i~_i-
taffy operations in it1t.
?9~'hc weapons of Jerusaleri??.
under the above headline: i;l Kutla vrrtcs t1~cc ~rc~i~:
to the latest. roports, the Zionists ar of p oscd to the c~::r~1i-
litarization of Jcrusalcrz. ?~~Jc do not knovr what vrill hal:?cn
;next ~ but ~ud~in~ frog:i bast events, the T:Icdiator has 'cut
.three 'alternatives . Firstly he i:1ay for~ct about the whole
thin.,, scconclly Yic ria5* disarrl the Jcvrs bi- force, anti t'nirdly
}hc ~iay ask tho l,ra'os to disarrl while lcavii~; the Jccrs ar::jce.
in order to Drove to the Jevrs that the ~~rabs have good faith.
=t rocs without sayin.u that Fcrnadottc vri 11 not and cannot
adopt c ithcr of the first two alternatives . He frill uncloubtc-
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c11y attcr.~l~t the thir.a one but l"Je Can tc~l hi1:1 fror:i no~v
that ?lio will 'ac vrasti~~;; his tiric ~ The r",,rabs trill never,
never, d~;roe to disarms in Jerusaloi:~ if the Jcvrs do not
disari:l't .-----
Grcccc denies any relation tivith
Israel.
i 1~1 1',s'sas as ,rcll as other i apcrs publish a coru:iuni-
qu~ issucc~ ~y c Infort-aation office of the Grccll Lc~atian
in Cairo which reads as follows ; "pn the occasion of the
rc~,orts , ublishcd by the Jcvrish ncwsa~cncy in soi:lc Ir:crican
n,etrsha~crs eoneernin,~ the eenclusion of economic a~rcericnts
between soi:zc countries and. the allc~ed State of Isr^.cl, the
,Dross Section of the Grcclt Lc~;ation declares that custoris
relations have''~ccn severer, between Grcccc and Palestine
since T.lay lath, 19~.~8 s e e ink that I>alo s tine . is not one of the
countries crith vrhich Grcccc is bound by an ccono~~ic aurcci:icr~t.
Thcrc is no intention at ,~rescnt to bc~;in nc~otiations for
the conclusion of any a~;rccl:zcnt and there is no truth either
in the rcl~ort that Grccco has c oncludcc~ v~. th Israel a "Clca-
rin~," a~;rcci:~cnt or tl~zat discussions conccrnin~; this i:.attcr
arc to liin~; ~.lacc at ~~rescnt".
-Libya is anothc r Palc s t inc ".
Unc~cr the above heac:in~;, !~l Ikhv~ran ll 1.luslil:loon
~urritos ; ?fY~dc knotiv through experience t a Invest cation
Coru:zissions are created to justify some sinister action,
Lie vrcro not surprisocl therefore vnc~n tivc learner, that the
InvcstiUation Cor~rlittco on Libya rccorv.lcnccc? the ,,artition
of Libya into Cyrenaica trhich would sae controlled by the
British under the U-uisc of horse rule, Fazzan Lrizich trould
be ~ivcn to Francc~ and Tril olitania trhich would 'ec control-
lcd by l~rlerica Nnd Britain. Lut any person vrho knots Libya.
r,~ust sec at once that such 1,artition is l,hysically i~:ij?ossi~~lc
,unless the bid; po4rcrs Irish to annihilate the inhabitants.
It is a knot^rn fact that i.iost of the inhabitants follotr the
rain a'nc' to force thc~:i to stay in one rc~ion"tvoulcl '.~c tant~.-
rieunt to l,s.ssin~ a sentence of c'cath cn thcri. I.iorcovcr, Isle
Libyans travel, long distances across the desert to sell their
foods ?',---- The vrritcr concludes trlc article by crarnin~ thy,
bid; pov~crs a~,ainst the l,artiticn of Libya t-rhich riay vrcll c'~~-
velon into a c onflic t as serious as that cf Pales tine .
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'~Thc policy vrhich should be
~'olTov~cd torrarcls the tvv~o flocs".
Unc~cr the above hcac'.in~; ~l Kutla ,~ublishcs nn
editorial in 1~hich it urUCS the ESyp an authorities to'
pursue a neutral policy tov~arcls the l;rascnt dispute bct-
vrccn l~.rlcrica anc'. England on the one hand and Soviet i~ussia
on the other.
r ~.a ,~.n r.~..rww~w...~wwrs
Tho, Arab Lca~uc and the Hyderabad
_ question.
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