The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-20
Young Arab Obseruant
Bx HAL BOYLE

CAIRO Up To-day let's look into the mind
OF young Egyptian Arab college student
We will do it by reading excerpts from
themes he has written for his class in the
English language. These themes show him to
be doubtful, suspicious Of his own country S
leaders, distrustful OF foreigners and fiercely
patriotic.
He is turbulent in the way of adolescence
the world around. proudly sympathetic with
the oppressed and disillusjoned as can only
be a young man raised between two cultures
in neither of which he feels completely at
home.
This young man doesn't write on such clas-
sic American schoolroom topics as ''the view
from my window or "my most interesting
experience He writes Of nobs and freedom
and bloodshed and justice, because these
tellectual windows.
He is pro.Arab and strongly anti British
and anti Semitic. He suspects Allied propa-
ganda as much as he ever did Nazi propa-
ganda, and indeed wrote that the present trial
of Nazi leaders as war criminals was "a his
torical joke
Many of these leaders served their coun-
try according to the law they understood -
his theme continued. British Empire leaders,
for instance. had committed more disgrace
eul crimes than these Nazi leaders, yet they
never stood before any tribunal. The inventor
OF the atom bomb and those who used 1t to
kill thousands of children are as much war
criminals as the Nazis."
The student worries much over his nation S
poverty stricken masses, three -fourths OF
whom, he says, live more like animals than
human beings" Defending looting during re-
cent riots he wrote:
Poverty and ignorance are responsible for
riots. The mobs were looting the shops OF
people who have been sucking their blood for
a long time. The nobs are naked and it was
their only chance to get clothes for their dirty,
diseased bodies 1t was their opportunity to
snatch by any means something to live on
"Smashing shops is the only manner mobs
understand to express their long pent up
feelings. Justice will convict these miserable
ignorant but innocent human beings because
those who maintain justice never suffer from
want"
In another theme on 'waste Of money" he
protested against a concert given by the
Egyptian government to Pan-Arab League
representatives
Government has to realize that this wasted
money belongs to the people" he said. En-
tertainments are understandable in country
like the United States, where nearly every
body S. food and home are guaranteed, but in
Egypt it is human crime. These unneces-
sary entertainments must be stopped If the
government wishes to be respected and in
tends to maintain Justice in this miserable
country"
Decrying Jewish moves to. establish ma
tional home in Palestine he declared in still
another classroom theme:
There is only one way to free Palestine
from the new aggression. The Arabs must
establish powerful and well-equipped army.
Democratic principles these days do not
help Justice We need only look at what is
hon i,, law Iran and India tn
realize that force is master Of all.
1.-THE solution Is in the hands Of the people
themselves. The time has come for the strug
gle to protect Arab liberty. Official Arab lead
ers ought to be ignored and the people carry
the flame and fight with self-confidence. To
rely on well paid leaders is undoubtedly sui
cide''
In other themes this serious young student
criticized Allied soldiers for drunken New
can congressman who favored unrestricted
JEWS immigration into Palestine for 'irter-
fering in affairs which are none of their bust
ness and forecast any agreement between
Britain Russia and the United States would
come about only by sacrificing small nations
and dividing them into strategic areas which
the big powers will occupy forever"
When the teacher objected that too many
of his students were prone to condemn and
failed to write about ''the fine things Egypt
is full off, this student wrote in his next
composition:
"Egypt's educated youth has grown up to
face critical problem. They have message
to carry and a patriotic duty to achieve.
Every sincere Egyptian has nothing to think,
to write or to speak about more than Egypt's
freedom
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