The Archive · 1939

Arab States Delegates

Delegations representing the Governments of neighbouring States will be composed as follows: Prince Mohamed Abdel Moneim (Egypt) together with Hassan Nashat Pasha, Egyptian Ambassador in London; Ah Maher Pasha, Chief of the Royal Cabinet; Abdul Rahman Azzam Bey, Egyptian Minister to the Iraqui and Saudi Arabian Government; Prague, Jan. 29.

"When your house is on fire, it is your nearest neighbour who aids you first; we wish to live and will live amicably with our largest neighbour, the German Reich," the Czech Premier, M. Rudolf Beran, declared today gt a meeting of the National Party's Youth organization in Brno. Members of this group for the first time wore the uniforms of the Gov-emmental Youth Organization. These are green-grey and navy blue.

"We have lived through our national tragedy. We must not and will not again count upon anyone," the Premier added. "We believe no longer in collective security. We have created national union. We will create a second republic. We must eliminate from our national life the poison of the foreign ideology that was to a great extent the cause of our recent misfortune."

His Government would revise the rights of citizenship accorded since 1918, he said. "We will see to it that emigres do not eat the bread of cur workers and artisans. The Gov-

General Nuri al Said (Iraq) Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs; Amir Faisal (Saudi Arabia) Minister for Foreign Affairs; nad Bey Hamza, Deputy: Minister for- Foreign Affairs; Prince Self al Islam al Hussein (The Yemen), Al Quadhi Muhammed Abdultah Ashami and Al Qadi all bin Hussein Amir; Taufiq Pasha Abuel Buda (Transjordan) Chief ulster to the Government.

Most of the above-named arrived this afternoon.

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