ABSTRACT
THE Palestine war can be said to have made an impression, albeit slight, on all the Arab communities of North Africa and the Persian Gulf which are usually in no way concerned with the affairs of the Middle East. There are three distinct regions: Libya, French North Africa, and the Persian Gulf sheikhdoms, and their inhabitants differ in many ways from those of the Arab League countries. The Libyans and the Persian Gulf Arabs are, on the whole, a little more backward that the peoples of any of the Arab League States except the Saudi Arabians and the Yemenites; those of French North Africa are more advanced. But all are Moslems and it was on the basis of their faith rather than on any actual interest that their sympathies were vaguely engaged. Another factor is tending very slightly to associate them with their Middle Eastern brethren, and that is the Arab League which, in some way to make up for its failures closer to home, is ready always, usually unasked, to lend its often unwanted support to these Moslem countries in their dispute with Western authority.
