PZ 5749/39(1) 'Propaganda: Articles forwarded to Persian Gulf, Kabul & Katmandu for dissemination' [‎110r] (219/715)

GERMANY AND THE ARAB WORLD
Oerinan political *£rns # past and present, in the
Near and Diddle East, are well-known to lost Arab readers.
:.oro than 40years a^o, under the old Imperial Germany, the
object of that Government was to spread German influence
through Turkey and the Arab lands then under Turkish rule.
The Bagdad Rail a. , projected but never completed,
was largely financed by Gorman funds. Germans wore encouraged
to found settlements of Colonies in Palestine. German arch
aeologists, nominally engaged in excavation, spread propaganda
in Iraq by insidious means. The Kaiser himself - the Croat
War Lord - paid visits to Syria and Palestine, proclaiming
himself at Damascus the Protector of Islam and the Successor of
Salah el Din, and at Jerusalem a few days later the Protector
of the Christian Church and the Successor of the Crusadorc.
In duo course, German advisors to the Turkish A*my
were appointed by the Turkish Gov rnmenfc in Constantinople,
and by 1914 German influence in Turkey had become so strong
that the latter felt bound to follow Germany^ lead in the
Great Var. There is no doubt that had Germany boon victorious,
she would have made Turkey pay hor price by giving her a con
trolling influence In her Eastern Empire. Certainly there
would have boon no question of liberating the Arab states.
T eoe would have exchanged Turkish for German domination.
In illustration of this contention, it is interesting
to find the following passage in a book recently published
entitled "Economic Recovery and Industrialization of New Turkey"
and written by Orhan Conker and Emile Y/itmeur (pp.49-50):-