TWO events will be witnessed during this week, one in Syria and the other in New York — capable of changing the whole trend of world history, writes Richard Wyndham, special correspondent in the Middle East of the Sunday “News of the World” in Sunday’s [May 12] issue. The first event, he says, is the extraordinary session of the Arab League on Thursday in Damascus … to decide on the steps to be taken in reply to the Palestine Commission’s Report.

Wyndham writes that the Arab Leader Jamal Husseini told him: “We have cabled to Russia asking for support…” because the Arabs had lost all faith in the Western Democracies.

Jamal Husseini continued, says Wyndham: “I was not surprised at the Anglo-American Commission’s findings. Their methods compared most unfavourably with Lord Peel’s Commission which, at least, tried to understand witnesses’ criticism. When I gave my evidence I found Justice Singleton irritable and impatient.”

Husseini added, says Wyndham: “I receive the impression that he was anxious to suppress any criticism of the British administration in the hearing of his American colleague. More regrettable is the fact that the Commission deliberately misinformed the world as to the strength of Arab feelings.”

Published in Dawn, May 13th, 2021