are fundamentally hostile to the Arabs. If agreement is reached with the Arabs, or if His Majesty's Government's new policy is acceptable to them (solution (a)), the likelihood of any concerted Arab hostility to this country in the event of a European war, is, in our opinion, remote. A new policy which Arab countries regard as not much better, if at all, than the existing position (solution (b)), would probably result in the intensification of the ill-feeling which is already latent in Arab countries.