- CA MRUASC C0017-0270-10-01
- Item
- [between 1939 and 1945]
Part of Airborne leaflets collection
Item is a leaflet, likely produced for use in North Africa against Egyptian and other Arabic-speaking troops in the British Army. The leaflet mimics a Bank of England one pound banknote on the recto, with an Arabic inscription. A translation of the inscription reads:
Signs of dissolution
If you contemplate this bank note, you’ll remember that time that you’d get for it 10 times its weight in shiny gold.
This is because this piece of paper was guaranteed by the great [British] empire with all its power and wealth, but its greatness is gone, and its wealth disappeared.
So what is the value of the bank note today? You probably know that.
Every day that has passed in this war that England instigated, has torn apart the power of the English empire, and every battle that England lost was a cause of deterioration of its currency.
The day - when a beggar on the street would refuse the English pound given to him as a gift – has come close.
God wanted the dissolution of Britain and it will be…