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Translation of an article which appeared in the
Basra paper n Al Thagar” on 29th December 1933«
THE DANGER OF COLONIZATION IN ARABIA.
We have previously reproduced an article frcm the
Egyptian newspaper, named like ourselves "The Thagar" and
printed in Cairo in December 1931, headed "The Arab World
is not a separate number of Nations, but one Arab Nation”.
In this article we discussed the Arab case and showed the
danger likely to arise to the Arab countries if the attempts
of European Governments to colonize Arabia became a success
and pointed out the hellish plans and artifices that would
If
likely'be and were being tried, and gave examples of how
the colonial group intended to work to separate the con
solidated group of Arabian Amirats into a number of small
groups, and we showed how the Arabs might get to work and
counteract these attempts to divide. It is Arab unity
that will enable the Arab nation to check the colonial
ambitions (of Europe) and to obtain a status similar as
that enjoyed by Europe. We stated that in that article
that one of their plans would be to pit the Rulers of the
different provinces of the Jazirat al Arab one against the
other and by weakening them, open their countries to the
colonial idea of things. There is no question of the fact
that at the present day the Jazirat al Arab is strong,
but the colonial gang are continuously working to undermine
this strength by starting war in the Jazirat and so causing
the Rulers there to lose their strength and thus give the
outside powers an opportunity to occupy their countries
and benefit from their great resources, and develop their
priceless mineral wealth.
The dispute that has lately arisen between th
King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud and the Imam Yahiya Hamid al Din
proves what we predicted three years ago in the previous