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UNREAL REVOLT
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1946,
What The Jews
Arabs
And
Want
The Palestine problem, pro- processed in Jewish laboratories bably the world's most pressing ar imported by Jewish com- dilemma, boils down to whether mission agents. a legal foundation should be shoved under the fact that the Jews have come home to the promised land.
Few of Palestine's 1,200,000 Arabs doubt that Jewry has come back to Palestine to staya, after its 2000-year exodus. But Arabs leaders contend that ad- ditional Jewish immigration would lend inevitably to a Jew- ish State, and no Arab profess. es to see the slightest possibility that a Jewish State, legally con-
By CARTER DAVIDSON
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stituted, cay ever rise on Paley tinian coil unless that soil is soaked first with Arab blood.
On the other, hand, some 80
per cent of the world's 14 mil ick Jews are represented as being willing to accept nothing less than statehood for their
national home.
There will be no disposition to attach undue importance to the minor muting which has come to head in the Socialist ranks over foreign policy. More than half of those who put their names to the offending amendment to the. Address comprised the small see-
Their leaders contend. that tion of crypto-Communists who sentimental, racial, and reli- have been consistently critical u. gious ties make zion, rather Mr. Beyin both in the House and than any other part of the in parte meetings,. This sulid world, the logical place for a nucleus as swollen on this---Jewish homeland. They argue casion by a number of others with that the Jews need a country somewhat visionary ideas of what of their own to escape being is practicable in workaday forever a minority, a stranger world. There is no evidence that in someone else's land. this species of pseudo-idealism commands any significant support in the country. Certainly no res ponsible person would wish to see Mr. Bevin embarrassed, fat less
inconsidered criticism.
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The leaders of the party slinw. rd no more inclination than it the past of truckle to this section of their supporters. It was shown that their demonstration portend ed nothing in the nature of a split the Socialist party. The Gov ernment enjoyed ample support with the inain body of the adherents which enabled them to
take a firm line with a small dis
Roughly, one ninth of the 1,200,000 Arabs in Palestine are Christian; the remainder Moslem; most of the Christina are Greek Orthodox; abunt 20.000 are Anglicans.
Most responsible leaders nd- mit that Zionist enterprise has raised wages of Arab labourers
and enriched some landowners add.it all is more than offset and businessmen. But, they
by the new burdena and ow needs created. They point to special measures of public se- eurity duplication mide neces- sary when Hebrew became one) tablishment of a bureaucracy, of three official languages, es- and other factors, all increasing Government Coats.
There is a sare neet for
broadening Arab educational
cilities, Arap leaders admit, and add that they are planning to accomplish this. A Govern- ment survey two years ago re- ported that only 32 per cent. and 14 years were attending of Arab children between five school, compared with 96 per cent of the Jewish children of the same ages-in-school.
The Arab of Palestine, theed by Jewish "westernisation" aud by the political progression of his Arabic neigbours asks aly Jewish spokesmen say that for time to become modern- Zionism has brought increased and an independent State in production and higher living which to do it.-A.P. alandards to the Holy Land, improving life for Jews and Arabs alike.
The Jewish Investment in Palestine is about £1,850,000,-
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last half-century. Jews awn.) 20,000,000 worth of land; They have invested $25,000.000
Arabs two to one in the popu- In industry. Outnumbered by
lation, Jews paid 62 per cent. of all taxes collected locally by the British Mandatory Govern- ment in 1944-45.
About 300 Jewish agricul- sident minority, which in any case tural settlements form the basis had no quarrel with them in other for the principal economy of departments of policy. The re- the Jewish national home. More: bellion was ne more formidable than one quarter of Palestinc's than that of the Liberal Imperia 600,000 Jews till the soil, and lists at the turn of the century produce 154000,000 worth of jand much less so than that o
crops a year. They farm scien- the opponents of the Governmenttifically, and it is not unusual to see a bright, new tractor of India Bill within the Conserva tive party a decade or so ago.
Mr. Eden was speaking not for the Conservative Opposition alone
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wooden plough. farmer moves slowly across his in the background an Arab land behind A camel-drawn
Disaster
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"Honest, I didn't mean to wake him! Please just step to the phone and say you've caught a burglar in your house!"
An Airman Weaves
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BY THE WAY
BEACHCOMBER®
Was Shakespeare Queen Eli- zabeth? If not, why not? ^^A: quarter of a century ago the learned Frenchman Lefrane dis covered that
Shakespeare was
the ncm tle plume of the sixth Earl of Derby. This scholar has now produced another book to prove his theory more "con- clusively, I think it more likely that Queen Elizabeth wrote the plays, but preferred to have them attributed to the Stratford [man, on the advice of Essex. Is it not odd that if you take the seventy-eighth word in Act II" of ensure for Measure," you find that the third letter of !that word is an "e"? E-for Bl
'zabeth. Moreover, all the other letters of the Queen's name ard used in that same play? Can thiệ be coincidence?
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The Macaroon Of :
Macaroon
The outbreak of clowning Glasgow, which "takes the form of writing gibberish un shop shutters" is attributed by some to the sinister influencë of the Macareon of Macaroon, descendant of a long line of |Macaroons. The Macaroon Kves
lenely life in his castle. “už Shrillwillie, known in the bars
der ballads as the retreat (of: This is the story of a per-Service and his plans were al Sonziemuir. The Macaron '00- WIN the Whaup, the terror of sistent ex-serviceman.
ready formulating for post-war cupies his leisure in writing Within six months of shed- Returned to this country, atibberish on the walls of his dling his uniform Peter Saun-24 looked round for premises rooms, and dera of Elgin has weaved his in Aberdeen and eventually got through the post leafleta "at- in distributing way along the path that leads a derellet building, a former vocating this method of de tu fortune, despite very heavy coach and wash house with corating shop-shutters. That
coachman's flat above which and making fish-skin glove had been used 40 years The place was gradually crum-
20. nay be described as his hobbies.. bling into ruin and the local council was reluctant to allow
Music Notes. occupancy. But persistence had its way.
obstacles.
ew'n
He has just placed a large order for his
designed tweeds with a Paris house and is negotiating to place a similar order with one in Brussels,
today over political develop- By F. CROWLEY
ments, particularly in Western Europe, which they feared Orders are coming into his might result from the deadlock Aberdeen tweed mill at a rate between the Government and taxing his capacity, 400,000 soft coal miners, whose
Thus this former RAF air strike is progressively paraly man is seeing the fruition of sing United States economy.
his own determination to have They said they saw in the business of his own." situation the makings of world disaster."
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That story which appeared the other day about a sheepdog which plays the planci In its Sinking his gratulty and his leisure hours reminded me of Opinion. savings Saunders with the aid picture in Dublin, of a schoolmate cleared away A man is trying, with much six cartloads of rubble. Then exasperation, to teach a fish he resurfaced the flour, patched to play the piano The fish and replantered the walls. turns towards the teacher and
Another little battle
"Who -erer with says petulantly: officialdom for light and water heard of a horse playing Saunders was
cricket?” (Y demobilised was won.
Now the trouble was a losm,
But the real muddle OCCUTE 1ressed about France, which months ago and immediately he Anxiety was particularly ex- from the Royal Air Force aix
The Board of Trade deflect when an octopus attempts to Charles de Gaulle, diplomatic which he had evolved since he permit, sa off he went in the that scene. since the resignation of Generai set about continuing the plan ed him when he applied for a play the bag-pipes. Try to draw authorities have viewed as was eighteen and which he had train to London and brought
The Slopcorners potential battleground for the polished while in the Service. back the permit with him! to go on keeping our part of the Most of the produce from ideologies now clashing in the
When he was eighteen Saun-
But the Yorkshire manufae- turers said he would have to Mimsie Slopcorner as the as an economic unit or of the ex- Jewish settlements goes into Foreign Ministers Chuncil and ders was being trained as on
Spirit of Dried Onion Powder! theirs. Moreover, in spite of Mr. Tauva, a producers marketin, the United Nations General As. architect and, volunteering for wait two years for his loom. That will be one of the it the Air Force, he was told he off in the train to York-tractions at a gymkhans or agreement while others default on co-operative which sold #4,000,-sembly. the failure of Russia to implement 000 worth of uniry and frui Though denying that the would have to wait nine months: shire.
Iganised by Lady Cabstanleigh. United States the matter of treating Germany products alone in 1944-16.
was using fuel That crystallised his thoughts.
Mimsie's mother said yester Co-operatives dominate the and food as a politied weapon, Always; with G leaning i the Potsdam Agreement either in Jewish business life-probably authorities here admitted that towards designing, colours and in fact it took three journeys, for our Mimsie, what with the It wasn't so easy this time; day, "I'm sure it's very nice zones. But it would be quixotica natural result of the fact that these commodities constituted cloth Saunders went off change of supplies between the many
but he got his loom-in hun- international situation, and all. Palestinian Jews are two of the most potent politi-Galashiels on the Borders, and, dreds of parts. These he as-those problems that's what I on the Address he found a good politically leftist. For instance, cal issues in Europe today. The got a himself a job in a tweed sembled, got a permit for yarn, say. I do so think we can all deal amiss with the present ad- an inter-urban bus company authorities in Washington con- mill for his nine months walt. and turned cut his first length jão
more"! Mimsie's father." ministration of the British zone in is owned and operated by the sidered that America's "anti- By day he worked at the to his own design. **
Isaid, "Me · being a carpet- Germany. It is not the fault of men who run the buses. famine" programme would be loot at night he studied
Soon he had another Inom beater, I don't come much up the Government that immense
The Jewish cultural state has seriously affected by the strike. theory. When his call-up came and added two ex-Service men against all what you see in the difficulties are being created by its capital in Tel-Aviv, a bust-Reuter.
ha continued to study in the to his staff, training them in- papers, but I reckon
my old Hynd's defence, it is clear that ling city on the Mediterranear
to expert weavers
woman knows about It And there are many defects in our ad- coast. Plotted in 1909 on sandy
To, date he has turned out i then what about the Balkans? wastelands, it is now the home ministration which are indepen- of 200,000 Palestinian Jews,
ever fifty designs, but he work- she often says to me.: And:1 dent of the action of others, and and of such art centres as the
ed over twelve hours per day. say, 'How right you are, me Mr. Eden added his voice to those Palestine Symphony Orchestra
One secret of hle success is eld pudding Least-ways that's arging the appointment of a real- and the Habimal Theatre, a
that he guarantees to his cur- how I see it.. ly competent resident Minister. stock company presenting a step for which, as he pointed Hebrew translations of Hamlet our, the late was provided several and other great plays. precedents. The present food crisis in the British zane is another Aspect of the German situation which does not tally with the ex- |pectations brought back by Mr.
Herbert Morrison from Washi ington in the spring.
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The Palestine, Arab (political stepchild of the Middle East, is striving simultaneously to wig independence from Britain / and check Jewish colonisation.
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
“The Authority on Authorities”
HOPE HIS PLAY IS BAD
tomers that he will not repri
duce another cloth of the same
design for two years
With the women that is a
The Pace That
Charms
ugh There is a great deal to be Now he is supplying his own said for the Snail-Watching
then either a third diamond lead sure seller! er à club switch, followed by the spade A,
TRUMAN BACK IN CAPITAL
could have beaten it designs to women who knit ociety, which celebrated its In the long run it pays to three. But South, with a silent goods at their own home, first birthday the other day. treat your opponents as if they partner, did not know that. Fur-
As an antidote to speed records jan land and in the air "susil- When a shipload of Jews, ore doing the soundest and most thermore, he thought he had a lacking immigration
watching is a soothing pastime. certifi expért thing-in either the bid- pretty good chance to make 5- Egypt, and particularly the cates, landa at Haifa Harbor, ding or the play. But there is one Spades. He really could not,
I can imagine a snail who is Sudan, is a further matter or
kind of
time in rubber bridge against perfect defense, but he
particularly proud of his slow- many Arabs talk of bloodshed
ness-anying to an aircraft pilot, : which the Opposition have never and violence. When President when it le imperative to act on should have against the defense disguised their anxiety, and there Truman speaks of sending the assumption that the other fel-he actually received. His failure.
New York, Nov. in a condescending and even Contemptuous a tone of voice. will be approval of Mr. Eden' 100,000 persecuted Jews from low has made a bad play. That is, to was sad.
West took his heart K, then led President Harry Truman end. "Why, you will be in Karachi desire to see closer economic, and Europe to Palestine, the Arab when your only chance to make
your contract, or to defeat his, the, which South ruffed. The cd his Florida holiday today long before I have got to the ensl cultural relations with the coun- speaks of "American interfere-would be if his play was unsound. spade A dropped the Kand the and flew to Washington tefthis garden path.Whats an " and glances significantly you then not only should hope put East in with the Q. If East et his "fight to the finish unintelligent way of going on? toil concessions, air rights, that his play was bad, but should now returned either his last heart of 400,000 soft coal strikers, watching world will be invaded with Mr. John L. Lewis, leader. The danger is that the snails and other American, interesis.
But no Arab will admit that Play exactly as if you know posi-or, a diamond from his partner's whese netion threatens a first by sportsmen, who will want to
tively it was bad.
secondly-bid suit, the contract class labour war and widespread hold snail races, with all the would have been beaten a trick, economic dislocation.
din and feverish excitement aa- no matter what South did.. Bilt
In a drastic move to save sociated with other forms of East; instead returned his club. 4.
South just could not think of made necessary by the gambling. And the end of that East doing that if he held the K, three-day old strike, the Gp will be snails chasing jelectde
tries of Western Europe: All these are questions which belong to the sphere of helpful criticium" rather than dissent from the main lines of foreign policy. It is not here but, as the official Conservative amendment served to empltasise. on domestic policy that issue is joined between the Opposition and the Government.
· 40-HOUR WEEK INEVITABLE
Brussels, Nov. 2 The Textiles Committee of the Internationa! Labour Office; at its closing plenary session beje, expressed, the opinion that "the adoption of a working week of not more than 40 hours In the textile industry is ulti-j mately inevitable
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these things are based on any hostility to the Jewish race.
"Give us our independent State," say a good many Aratr leaders, and we'll welcome what additional Jews the coun-g try will absorb, and we'll live H AKQ87 -in peace with those alreadyD. QJ 10
here,"
The case for the Arab-In C10 3 Palestine has largely been taken out of his. bands by the seven Middle East States of the Arab League-Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Irak; Trans- jordan, and Yemen, A.
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It would be a play so bad that trument has announced exten-slugs
you couldn't expect anybody tove ents in the use of electri make it, South said later. So he city in 21 of America's 48 marked the Kin West's hand. states from Monday, st Consequently he came in with his plants due to the lack of cof The shutting down of steel
Bats Fromen
World's Belfryes
He said that the Ministry
where the front of the house... was approached from the rear,y
A hoping West had a singleton started yesterday and the of Werks supplied fences: 1 club K. But he didn't, so East Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corpara the rear of temporary houses, later set the contract with that tion has announced a 25 per but not at the front, except card: If South had hoped more cent cut next week-Reute soundly, that East had something The main weapon still in the vulnerable)
(Dealer: South, Neither side besides the two spades for, his hunds of Palestine Arabs is the
double, and it had to be the club boycott of Jewish-goods. And South West North East K, he would have played low and right now that weapon is being
Pass made his contract against that bad wielded energetically,AN
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The Commitice adopted irso Arab merchants who continue 3.3 lutiond covering the needs for dealing with Jews find them-
Tomorrow's Question Increased production, wage selves fined and, their stocks Pass Pasa Dbl
Under what circumstances queations, recruitment and of Jewish goods confiscated. The East-West 5-Hearts could should a defender hold up play of training a personnel, improved Dellvery boys who haul Jewish i have been defeated by even the the frumpy ace on declarer's Jesd working conditions, welfare goods to Arab stories are likely most botched-up defence, and an of the king, de queen, using a facilities and holidays with pay, to get a cuning. Arab doctors Inspired defense of the diamond small card instead on the first
have stopped prescribing drugs. A followed by a small one, and trump trickt
Peute
BOMB ON LINE
Jerusalem, Nov. 21
Tailpiece
A bomb was found on the A gentleman, who slowly and allway track between Lydun laboriously transferred some and Tel-Aviv yesterday, tens of thousands of coupons ifteen metres of track were from an office to his car, said damaged when it was detonated he did it in a white hot rage". bar there were no casualties: This reminds me of the Palestine railway traffic had criminal who cut his grand- been partially resumed on Fri mother-into four thousand day under heavy military guard léces and said: "r dia (e l
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