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on the floor of the church, shows that the Archbishop's apprehensions were well-founded. His prophecy has come true.
I was told that this poster was put up by the Arab League.
Certain committees, posing as "patriotic," either mortgaged
or bought land from Palestine Arabs, ostensibly to keep it
from Jewish settlers. Arabs who refused to sell at low prices
were branded tools of the Jews, and often murdered. Actually,
the purpose of these committees was to extend the feudal
powers of the landowners. I was told: "The Arab who sold his
land to the Jews against our advice was killed at once. Anyone
could kill him. No one would know who. The Arab's family
and the families of other Arabs would know why he had been
killed."
THE ARAB DREAM—ISLAM UBER ALLES
ONE of the Arab League's most eloquent spokesmen was a
Roman Catholic convert named Assad Bey Dagher, whom I
met through Aboul. Assad Bey briefed me at length on the
League's ultimate aim: the unification of the Arab States
from Gibraltar to Iraq. This would include Spanish and
French Morocco, Algeria, Lybia, Tunis (these North African
Moslem countries are collectively known as the Maghreb),
Sudan, the Arab League States (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen,
Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan), and Palestine, which was represented in the League by the Mufti.
"The Arab world would be like a giant bird, with the
Maghreb countries comprising the left wing, the Arab States
the right wing. Egypt would be the body and soul of the Arab
bird," Assad Bey said to me. "There will be unity, uniform
laws, the same money system, no customs barriers, and no
need for passports for Moslems. Each State would have an
independent tax system and its own army, but the manpower