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'30/2 THE ARAB LEAGUE.' [‎10r] (19/40)

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The record is made up of 1 file (20 folios). It was created in 8 Oct 1944-15 Nov 1945. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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THE ARAB LEAGUE
Edward Atiyah of the Arab Office
Spectator, Ootober I3th
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Recent discussions and developments have brought the
question of the Arabs generally and^the Arab^League in
particular increasingly before public attention, and it is
well that the step taken on the 24th of last March should
be clearly understood* On that day the representatives
of Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the Lebanon,
Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan and Yemen (seven Arab States with a^total
population of over thirty million) signed in Cairo a
covenant which bound them together into a league for
co-operation in % all matters of common concern.
To make the significance of this event clear it is
necessary to explain its antecedents, both recent and
remote, since many people in England still find it
difficult to understand the meanings of such concepts as
lf the Arab world” and n Arab unity” •
Originally, the word ”Arab” meant the nomads of the
desert, the Arab tribes that lived in the Arabian
peninsula itself.
But, following the amazing fortunes of^the desert
warriors when they burst out of their home in the seventh
century and founded a world-empire, the word lias acquirod
a new and much wider meaning. In a large part of the
Byzantine world the Arab conquerors settled down, intei—
married with the local population, converted the majority
to Islam and gave their language to the whole people.
In this way all that part of the world which lies along
the southern and eastern coasts of the Mediterranean, from
the Straits of Gibraltar to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , became
arabised, and remained so even after the Arab Empire passed
away. This is the Arab world to-day. It includes Morocco,
Tunis, Algiers, Libya, Egypt, Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan , Palestine,
Syria, Lebanon and Iraq as well as the Arabian peninsula
itself. It includes sophisticated city dwellers, among
them an educated class speaking English and French and
in close contact with European thought, as well as
picturesque nomads, and comprises Christians as well as
Moslems. It has its roots in a great civilisation (a
combined product of Arab and^yzantine factors) which^
flourished in Damascus and Baghdad and Cairo, a civilisation
which led the world for three centuries and transmitted
to Europe, through the Arab universities in Spain, the
thought of Greece five hundred years before the Renaissance-
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This file contains correspondence relating to the establishment of the Arab League.

  • a summary (ff 2-9) of a resolution of protocol of the Preparatory Committee for the Arab Congress published in the Journal d'Egypte in October 1944.
  • a copy – provided by the British Ministry of Information Middle East Services – of an article entitled 'The Arab League' by Edward Atiyah of the Arab Office, which was published in The Spectator , on 12 October 1944.
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1 file (20 folios)
Arrangement

The files in the paper are arranged chronologically from the front to the rear of the file. There is a page of file notes on folio 19.

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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 20; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 1-19; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.

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