An Arab Speaks

From an Arab leader, 2,500 miles across the desert from Casablanca where President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill were discussing policy, came a call last week for the extension of the Atlantic Charter* to the Arab world. Said the Emir Abdullah of Trans-Jordan:

"The Arabs have faith in the justice of the United Nations' cause. The United Nations are fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the Japanese because they resent tyranny, oppression, intolerance, regimentation, imperialism, and because they want the common folk to have freedom in all respects. But the United Nations are obviously not fighting this war to perpetuate . . . the same inequalities in conduct, the same deprivation of liberties, the same roughshod denial of freedom that stigmatize the dictatorships. . . . They must seek a broad interpretation of the role of the smaller nations that want to develop their own destinies and to rule their own corporate lives untrammeled by foreign influence."

* To Article III ("They respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live") Winston Churchill has already tacked one proviso: that this shall not supersede the announced policy of Britain in various parts of the Empire.

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