Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2017
1 Al Ahram (Cairo), March 23, 1945; Le Progrès Egyptien (Cairo), March 23, 1945. For text see below, Supplement, p. 266.
2 Journal d'Egypte (Cairo), March 23, 1945.
3 For background of Arab unification movement see Bulletin of International News, September 30, 1944, pp. 799-804, Philip Hitti, “Possibility of Union Among the Arab States,“ in American Historical Review, July, 1943; Philip W. Ireland, ed., The Near East: Problems and Prospects, Chicago, 1942; Col. Stewart F. Newcombe, “A Forecast of Arab Unity,” in Journal Royal Central Asian Society, Vol. XXXI, Pt. II (1944); George Antonius, The Arab Awakening, New York, 1939.
4 The Times, London, May 30, 1941.
5 H. of C. Debates, Vol. 387, February 24, 1943.
6 Essential details in S. F. Newcombe, as cited.
7 Al Ahram, March 31, 1943.
8 Al Ahram, September 25, 1944.
9 Al Moaqattam (Cairo), October 8, 1944.
10 For communiqué of Egyptian Foreign Minister see Journal d'Egypte (Cairo), March 3, 1945.
11 Le Progrès Egyptian, March 18, 1945.
12 AlrAkhbar (Baghdad), March 30, 1945.
13 The Damascus press ﹛Alif-Bay, etc.) indicated, however, that one deputy, Akram al- Hourani, cast his vote against the Pact because, as he explained, it did not take a sufficiently strong position concerning Palestine.
14 Decree No. 151, Republic of Syria, April 3,1945.
15 Journal d'Egypte, April 2, 1945.
16 Law No. 1 of 1945, April 5, 1945, Journal Officiel du Gouvernement Egyptien, No. 58, April 7, 1945.
17 Al Misri (Cairo), April 1, 1945.
18 New York Times, April 8, 1945.
19 Journal d'Egypte, May 11, 1945.
20 Egyptian Gazette, April 25, 1945.
21 Department of State Bulletin, June 3, 1945.
22 For Ml communique” see Journal d'Egypte, June 9, 1945.
23 See Al Ahram and La Bourse Egyptienne, July 16, 1945, Le Progres Egyptien and Egyptian Mail, September 5, 1945.