Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 June 1945 — Page 8
5 THURSDAY, JUNE 7,
245 Million efor Now United in
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Pan-Arab League, May Mar Peace Plan
This article on the major probleras of the Arab world is written by Dr. Edward J. Byng, radio commentator and author of sever#l books |
By EDWARD J. BYNG NEW YORK, June 7.-~The recent bloody fighting in Syria, with the| resultant bitterness among the na-| tives and friction between France and Britain has revealed only one aspect of the dangerous stale of tension that throughout the huge Mohammedan- -inhabited sector of the Old World, That sector extends from Morocco to China and from southern Russia to the heart of Africa. Recent events in Syria are a warning to.the Big Five that a third world war can flare up at any time if the pressing “problems of the Mohammedan East remain: unsolved. The warning is particular ly significant because the population of the British and French empires, Russia and China’ inc lude many million Mohammedans’ ” » 8 SINCE the influence of these huge ethnie groups can actually ‘make or
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Dr, Byng was the creator and for many years |
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in Europe and the East and other regions of the Moslem problems in his latest book,
bréak the peace it is imperative that Americans have at least a general idea of the structure and major problems of the Mohammedan | worla In _ihe past, many bloody revolls and several major wars resulted from the bitter rivalry among BritRussia, Germany’ and ammedan east. ambitious. scheme, aimed at. Gerover Turkey,.Syria, India.
Italy in the Moh
The Kaiser's
man hegemon Iran and eventually ' HITLER Kaiser's scheme, and lanne a8 Junction with’ the Japan 7 among sarist Russia
he other hand, t ! Britain, France. and. t mn the Arab and other Mohammedan regions was These powers set up arbitrarily defined “spheres of luence” which ternt among the natives lated bitterness has powerful sounding -formed Pan-
mtense led to
This just found a board in the recently Arab Lebanon, I Arabia, Yemen and
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nn un IN A certain sens is an Arab counterpart American Union in the hemisphere. The Arab league was founded onl a few be a major post-war period.
of our Panwestern
political facter in the The huge Arabspeaking region of the world v has an articulate voice in world affairs. Two hundred forty-five people follow the teachings of Mohammed. They prefer to be spoken of not as “Mohammedans” but as “Moslems.” The Moslem does not attribute..a diviné character to Mohammed. He looked upon him merely as an inspired prophet = » 5 ACTUALLY, the word e Moslem’ means “follower,” that is. followers of the prophet. Similarly, Moslems emphasize that their faith should be referred to not as “Mohammedism,” but as “Islam.” This term stems from an Arabic word meaning “surrender” —that is, surrender to God The Moslems live mainly-in Asia and Africa; but there dre strong { groups in Europe, te0, notably in { Albania, in: Bosnja; which now is a | part of Yugoslatia, and in the European part eof Turkey. i“ = on = FEW PEOPLE. realize that sla’ls a major Moslem ‘number of Meslems inside
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Dr. Byng spent. many years in the Arab
world. ; lle has dealt with their
“The World of the Arabs.”
{etrtory is estimated to be around 20 million. They live mainly in| the Crimea, the Caucasus and the vast region bounded by the Caspian | sea in the west, China in the east| and Iran, Afghanistan and India in the south: From Morocco, to Suez, North] Africa is solidly Moslem. So is the| major part of West Africa, the | whole of the Sudan and the Sahara region almost as far down as Central Africa. ‘ | u » ¥ | SYRIA and Palestine ‘have Mos- | lem majorities. Turkey and Iraq are inhabited almost entirely by | followers of the prophet. Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Transjordan, Iran, Afghanistal - are purely Moslem. | [slam has 90 million adherents in| India - and 48 million in China, whose huge province of Sinkiang is largely Moslem-inhabited: Power-| ful blocks of Moslems live in Java and other parts of the ‘Netherlands, East Indies. The warlike, Jap-hat-| ing Moros of Mindanao, - in the Philippines, also are Moslems. 5 n 5 ! IT 1S against this ethnic packground that we must view and judge the important problems of ne Moslem world. Some of these oblems are now in the focus of vorld-wide interest. They are: 1. The explosive, pressing problems of Syria and Lebanon 2. Our urgent need of a protective American naval and air base at Dakar, a region
vast
inhabited by the warlike Moslem Senegalese. Their friendship or enmity will decide the seof tne base. 3. The decisive Arab league in many vital problems 4. The influence of the huge nonArab parts of the Moslem work upon the stability of tite peac€.
MOTHER SHOULD GET MEDAL, ‘HERO SAYS
FORT. DEVENS, Mass. «U, P.b— A wounded soldier hospitalized at Fort Devens says his mother ought to get the Bronze and Silver Stars Aor which he has been recommended. Sgt Roland E Tuttle of Kittery, Me., said his mother, Mrs. Evelyn M. Tuttle, ought to be honored pecause: She is the children She works six days weekly at the Portsmouth Navy Yard as a painter's helper. to support the family. By working, she made it possible for two of her sons to enlist.
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war restrictions on travel. Twenty-four Hoosier counties have eliminated one-room schools com- genius toward the problem of food and hates it,” I agreed.
pletely, " “Food is the answer,”
THY INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ONE-ROOM SCHOOLS Nobel Winner fo Help Feed Germans With Wood Product IN STATE TOTAL 575
Every year, the number of “Httle. } od schoolhouses”
declines. . But
: never had been . outside; Germany: sfate su- and knew. nothing abpuit rnations. They would not listen, 50g asked, they destroyed, and Europe is hun-
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By JACK BELL Times Foreign Correspondent SALZBURG, Austria, | “The great mistake of the Nazis was have | | there still are 575 of ‘the one-room| Rous belie oS er ay what the Nazis taught, succeed, you variety in Indiana. Dr. Clemient T. Malan, perintendént of - public instruction, |said today that the trend toward consolidated schools in closing 523 one-room schools in] {the last six years. were 1098 such schools, he said. Malan said the schools, might been reduced even more except for research, which led to the making have béeti there and know that they | [bought for the same price, 2 of oil and gasoline from coal. he has turned his
number of fearfully toward the future.
| 1 and see justice,”
Dr, Frederich Bergius, Nobel prize |ily. “They have tried this autocratic proteins—meat, cheese, milk, butter Gerdon, there winner (1931) and always anti-Nazi,|fascism. They have seen the S8 and fat,” he said. |sat looking sadly at the past and and Gestapo at work. And as solthey have seen ‘that other | twice the protein content per kilo-. His Nobel prize was for. chemical form of autocracy, In Russia. You! [gram we get from meat. It can, 52.
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“Every human
process for
They must be sure that the people eat.” wood has resulted in food which he Heike
“But will Germany accept any believes can be of tremendous good, | = other | gemoeratic form of government?" especially in Germany where the’
dislike communism.”
| extracting” protein from waste wood. eagerly, “in Germany and Austria tion needing every resource is that | “Food is Germany's problem,” Dr. ag well as the rest of Europe" —food it is made from waste, the smaller June T.— Bergius says earnestly. “If you, who taken the task of undoing
: branche - is the cry, wherever.one goes. ” hha an pieces of wood, usual Dr. Bergius' research with waste gopyright, 1945, by The Indianapolis limes and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.
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“Yes, if they have work and food | the nation.
82 he answered read-|- “Germany’s diet is far short in] een pron
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