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Arslan, Shakeib, ANGRY ARABS. INGRATITUDE OF THE ALLIES, Edinburgh Evening News, 26 July 1922
ANGRY ARABS. INGRATITUDE OF THE ALLIES,
Edinburgh Evening News, 26 July, #1922Live, Timeline of British Mandatory Palestine
“Members of the Syrian Delegation were entertained at luncheon by the Palestine Arab Delegation under the chairmanship of Mousa Kazim Pasha, their president, at the Hotel Cecil, London, yesterday.
Emid Shekeeb Arflan, a member of the Syrian Delegation, said that in 1912 Britain and France secretly agreed about the partition of Syria and Palestine the latter going to Britain, while Syria was to go to France. This, he declared, was admitted in the French Senate lately by M. Poincare in reply to M. Victor Berard.
“This shows,” he continued, “That prior to the Great War the partition of Syria and Palestine was already arranged between England and France. During the war, however, the Allies found themselves in need of Arab help, and gave pledges to the Arabs which when victory was assured they began to forget or whittle down.
The result would now seem to be that they were to be reduced to subjection, while under the Turks they were free Ottoman citizens, participating in public life of the Ottoman Empire. Under the present regime of mandates the Arabs found themselves reduced to a state of virtual subjection to a foreign State, and the pretence of independence under the mandates was not but transparent deception.
They rejected the mandate, and did not attach any importance to the decision given on Monday by the Council of the League of Nations.” “We shall become independent in spite of that decision,” concluded the speaker.”
Arslan, Shakeib, ANGRY ARABS. INGRATITUDE OF THE ALLIES, Edinburgh Evening News, 26 July 1922
ANGRY ARABS. INGRATITUDE OF THE ALLIES,
Edinburgh Evening News, 26 July, #1922Live, Timeline of British Mandatory Palestine
“Members of the Syrian Delegation were entertained at luncheon by the Palestine Arab Delegation under the chairmanship of Mousa Kazim Pasha, their president, at the Hotel Cecil, London, yesterday.
Emid Shekeeb Arflan, a member of the Syrian Delegation, said that in 1912 Britain and France secretly agreed about the partition of Syria and Palestine the latter going to Britain, while Syria was to go to France. This, he declared, was admitted in the French Senate lately by M. Poincare in reply to M. Victor Berard.
“This shows,” he continued, “That prior to the Great War the partition of Syria and Palestine was already arranged between England and France. During the war, however, the Allies found themselves in need of Arab help, and gave pledges to the Arabs which when victory was assured they began to forget or whittle down.
The result would now seem to be that they were to be reduced to subjection, while under the Turks they were free Ottoman citizens, participating in public life of the Ottoman Empire. Under the present regime of mandates the Arabs found themselves reduced to a state of virtual subjection to a foreign State, and the pretence of independence under the mandates was not but transparent deception.
They rejected the mandate, and did not attach any importance to the decision given on Monday by the Council of the League of Nations.” “We shall become independent in spite of that decision,” concluded the speaker.”