File 87/1926 Pt 1 'Arabia: Bin Saud; Title; Recognition as King of the Hedjaz' [‎116r] (225/306)

Field, offering to sound the Editors of the "Workers Weekly",
^Worker", '’Glasgow Evening Times", "Eastern Standard" and
possibly the "Forward” ahd "Workers Pictorial"* with a view
to publicity on behalf of the Committee. He added that he
would deliver lectures irl Glasgow and the district, if he
were provided with speaker’s notes.
I)r M.M.XiQon wrote to frield on the subject of activity in
Scotland that "Edinburgh is too English and too respectable
for agitation*.’. The 'Beds’ of Edinburgh are not vermilion,
but only a plile magenta’." In the same letter, Leon emphasi
sed the fact (previously recorded in paragraph 1 of my note
of this series dated 18.8.P.5) that he wished his name to be
kept out of the Biff Committee publications, for some reason
connected with his Soeiete de Philologie; he added that he
"must work underground and incognito, Verbum oap.’."
6 , In a letter to Arthur Field, dated the P c Jth Jan.,
Captain Gordon Canning says "I hope you have planned a parlia
mentary campaign. You might get questions asked as to why no
steps have been taken towards peace negotiations by the
British Government, as a signatory to the Act of Algeciras
they are within their rights to do so. Bring my name in as
little as possible, as I hope to be called in later on - use
the Riff Committee always. Give out that Abdel Erim is in a
strong position and not likely to be defeated this spring,
that thousands of casualties will now be suffered since Spain
refused Abdel Krim’s generous peace offer. If the French and
Spanish had acted on the basis of the terms published in the
Quotidien last July, terms approaching which will be the
eventual conditions, already P 0,000 casualties would have been
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saved. If you publish tho photographs in the report, do not