The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-20
MosIems Disapprove Of American CobaI Policies
Morroccons Dislike America
Nearly as Much as Germany
Potentote Tells Reporter Thot U. S.
Policy in Eost Should be 'Honds or


chamberlain to open huge mo-
sale door to the reception apart
ments. II was motioned to enter
alone, and the pasha himself
locked the door from the inside.
A STORY-BOOK SETTING
We went into a sunlit garden
like something out of the Arab
ian Nights, with rows of beau
tiful fruit-bearing trees shading
a brilliantly tiled pool. Next we
entered the potentate's personal
apartments, removed our shoes
and reclined on magnificent low
divans beside a table laden with
sweet mint tea and honey cakes.
My host now was ready to talk.
At the time of the American
landing in North Africa, Ell
Glaoui had Fundamentally urg-
ed French and Arab cooperation
with US, and ! now asked why
he had done this. Speaking in
low, musical Eastern tones, in
perfect French and with some
English, Ell Ghaoui told me that
his Impressions had been thor
oughly bad of earlier visits paid
him by DR.. Fritz Grobba, the
Colonel Lawrence" of Ger
many, and by George Werner
Won Hentig. chief of the Arab
bureau of the German Foreign
Office.
"Superficially, the Germans
contact with the Moslem world
have been excellent" he ex-
planned. But basically, the Ger
mans never have understood the
Moslem world in its roots any
more than they have understood
America.
THE Germans are provincial
Europeans. That is why they al
ways make bad guesses, proceed
half way, then fail. Notice the
parallel between their tradition
al expectations that America
will stay out of war, and their
traditional expectations that the
Arabs will revolt. Both are
hopeful major policies of Ger
many, long pre-dating Hitler
and consistently followed by him
for Hitler is the complete
German traditionalist in foreign
policy. And notice that both of
these hopes still fail, at vast
cost to the Germans"
For contrast, l asked the
Pasha about Moslem reaction
to Americas current policies ov-
erseas. He answered: Il am sor-
ry to say it is already plain that
while Americas policies are
completely different in spirit
and intention than Germany's,
America must proceed with
great caution--a caution not ev-
idenced so far-or she will fall
heir to the same deep-rooted
antagonism and amending con-
flicts which the Germans would
have encountered If their plans
had prevailed. =
CRITICIZES OUR SPEED
For example, Americans
war to do everything quickly,
so they are likely to do il badly.
This mistaken speed will en-
broil your country in the same
suspicious, resistences and re-
sentiments as though her pur-
poses were bad. Strange as ii
may seem to far-off American
policy-makers, the fact is that
the Moslem world does not want
the wondrous American world
or the incredible American way
of life. We want the world of
the Koran. There are devotional
fragments In the Koran which
represent sustained theological
social and political doctrines for
the Islamic aeas. and nothing
can be done peacefully in mat
tiers Of individual freedom or
prosperity which does not re-
main within the limits of the
faith expressed by the Moham-
medan bible"