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Jew and Arab
One of the anomalies of the present conversations between Arab and Jew at St. James's' Palace in London is that,
although they cannot agree on n basis for settlement them- selves, they expect Britain to wave the magic wand that will bring understanding and peace to the Holy Land.
Why Britain should be wor- ried by this problem is beyond understanding. Yet a solution is of as much importance to
T
WINGS
over
Suburbia
HE drone of warplanes in
became the aky louder and louder. The
"sun" caught their" wings as they wheeled round, three flights of them, and made swiftly to where I stood, almost paralysed with fright, watching them.
They were headed straight for me, but at the last moment they passed, with an appalling roar. Just over my head, so low that, had I not been hunched up, with my eyes shut tight, I could doubtless have made out the pilots' faces.
When my cars had again be- come capable of normal hear- ing the noise had faded into the low, continuous drone Alled the which, eternally, skies.
No. I was not anywhere in Spain, or China, but standing at the front door of a pleasant suburban house with a trim gardon and concrete paths, a couple of hundred yards from Northolt Aerodrome, in Middle- 50x.
"R
EALLY. It's quici to- day," said Mrs. Powell, *You 01 Clyfford-rond. should be here some days! In the course of one morning we saw sixty-nine machines and often us many as fifty up together."
"I'm glad
didn't come when it was busy, then," I said, eyeing, anxiously, another fleet of bombers banking against the wind over the "I should think it norodrome. would drive you mad, this row going on all day long."
If it was only during the day- time it wouldn't be so bad," said Mrs. Powell, keeping an eye on her curly-headed two-year-old fair,
son, playing on the pavement, "but
by FRANK TILSLEY
Jamous novelist and writer, toho lives there
they're often at it until one in the morning-and as often as not they Unter- wake me up again at four. tunately I'm a light steeper. Still," she said. "I suppose we've just got to get used to it."
Elsewhere I found a householder who wasn't BÜ philosophical. "Yes," he said, "I suppose you can get used to anything in a way, but I notice that all my neighbours seem to be damn, bad-tempered Intely,"
It
I looked, as well as listened, and counted eight separate planes wandering slowly about various parts of the afternoon sky. seemed impossible that these tiny shining objects, so remote at the moment, were responsible for the drone continuous, nerve-racking which, by its very persistence, somehow got right under your skin. "You know," he said, "it's a bit thick for people like us who hap- pen to have chosen districts like this. where R.A.F. activity has 50 enormously increased. The whole neighbourhood, here, has deterior- ated like magic. Originally every- body owned their houses and were proud of them.
"Now the noise has driven some of them out, and the houses are being rented to people who don't care twopence."
E had to stop for a minute while three gigantic bombera, so low that I had to check myself from ducking, roared overhead, shaking a bicycle against a wall and, for a
Britain as it is to the Jews and PEACEFUL PENETRATION
COME years ago 1 wished to visit
He told me that the
Japanese
some
Arabs, for the difficulties and trials of Palestine are a crisis, more or less, to the entire world the south of Brazil. The train ser- years before, and how he had been
n small village called Iturary in colony had been established A solution would mean much for vice to it was very iregular, and I sent with the people to teach the This proved children. He took me round some the
in Germany, Језуд
for decided to go by road.
to be little more than a red earth of the houses, and I saw that the instance.
track winding along the const, and people were living as Japanesc in
fter some every sense of the world. through virgin jungle, but after-
Can au accommodation be
reached? Yes-on conditions. How did the trouble arise? During the war, Britain pro- mised the Jews a national home in Palestine. Britain also made a treaty promising to set up un Arab State thore..
hours of uncomfortable driving The Brazilian Government had sighted a small village lying amongst been very anxious to avoid the estab
lishment of States within States, and cuRvated fields in a small valley.
to
I drove through fields of sweet the Japanese had shown their good peppers and past fields where rice intentions by teaching the children slag the Brazilian National was sprouting from the damp earth
Anthem. But I am afraid that that at the side of a river. Other flelds were used for market gardening and was as far as the good intentions showed fine crops or cabbage, lettuce, went, for in the Japanese Itarary I and other greens. Finally drove saw no signs of the children becom
The schoolmaster ing Brazilians. into the village and found myself told me quite frankly that he was much to my surprise, in Japan! Or Ever since then. Britain has it seemed from all I saw around paid by the Japanese Government to malatain a proper sense of nationa- been trying to keep both prom-ne.
nmongst the Japanese people, Planking the one and only sircet Hence the con- mixes at once.
It is not surprising that the Brazi- were houses completely unlike the
anxious Ian Government is now fusion.
red clay huts beloved of the Brazilian about
these large colonies of and worker. They were of wooden foreigners who have no intention of frames covered with straw matting becoming nationals of the country
The panels, and thick puper panels.
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In
. This condition cannot con- tinue, and Britain must realise it. The Jews must realise, also, that the Arabs are the native people of the country,
The fact that the Jews settled in Palestine thousands of years should not give them ago
Numerous naked children played in The Romans set- priority now.
the street, their warm yellow skins tled in Britain two thousand glowing in the bright sunlight. Atj
But that does not one door squatted an old Japanese years ago.
woman dressed in an ancient silk mean that the Italian restaur-robe while she puffed a curiously Lateurs in London can claim to shaped pipe. A another an old man' Lcontrol the Government
I discovered later, were composed of they inhabit. many layers of cheap wallpaper glued together. The outer walls were some cases decorated with typical Japanese painting, and open doora showed rooms apparently devold of furniture.
Whitehall,
in
NAKED AND UNASHAMED
with a straggly white beard was laboriously writing on a sheet al paper with a smali brush. He show- ed absolutely no curiosity when I stopped my car and alighted.-
On the other hand, the Arabs
Among the naked children I noticed must remember that the Jews some, both boys and girls, of at least settled in Palestine with the twelve years of age, and could not help contrasting this with Brazilian assistance and protection of the children of the same age. Brzillons British Government, and that; learn modesty (false or otherwise) very early in life, and would never protection cannot be revoked dream of going about unclothed. The Japanese children, however, were not in the least embarrassed by their nakedness, and they crowd- ed round me as I walked along the street
now.
The immediate solution of the problem seems to depend on the prohibition of any more Jewish Immigration into Palestine.
What is the ultimate solution to be?
At one part I found the village school, a small bullding in a largo Lopen space. The children were all out in the open, seated on the ground as they chanted some lesson after the teacher. There seemed to hono lack of discipline, and the children dld not so much an glance in may direction until the lesson was over. STATE WITHIN STATE
Some suggest a plan for # Federation including Syria and Trans-Jordan (to where rioting spread yesterday with heavy Afic that I spoke to the school- |loss of Kie), in which the in- master and explained that I had been terest of the Jews' could be safe going to Itarary,, but hud seemingly arrived in Japan. He laughed and guarded. This may be ono way explained in good English that this out. But there are many dif wag Itarary the Japancre part of IL The older Brazilian" vulngo"wasn ficulties in the way
mile or so along the road.
Miller Watson..
brief frightening moment, blot. ting out the sun,
Seventy-Ave tons of metal there," he grinned.
****** Take my case, though,” he went- On. "I paid £625 for my house nearly three years ago. I still owe £450 on mortgage. But if I cleared off from here, as I'd like to do, would I be able to get my money back? Some people have just run for it, in the night, leaving the houses without notico; but why should respectable folk like us have to slink away like that, like BD many criminals? It isn't good enough."
As 1 was talking to a young mother nearby, we were interrup- ted by the most frightful sound I have over heard. It was like the highest note of a shrieking woman caught and petrified. It just went on and on and on; the one high unbelievable note, -coming, appa- curious-looking rently, from plane which hardly seemed to be moving.
I
FOUND myself taut, waiting for it to stop, gripping my pencil a though it was a last straw, saving me from drowning. At last, it moved out of hearing, and we both sighed together.
That's the thing I can't stand," she said. "It's controlled by wire. less or something. Though, really, it's my children I'm frightened for most. I'm terrified of a crash,
"You know there was one a few miles away some weeks ago? The pilot was burled forty feet, they Bay. It took hours to dig him out. I keep on at my husband to move.. but he's got to be near his job, you'
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"If you ask me anything, a wor could almost be a relief, more than anything else. It will end this awful tension, anyway, If it's RO- ing to keep on much longer, then I say the sooner we have a war and zet it over and done with the bet- ter. It it wasn't for the children I'm sure
I'd go mad.
Two neigh bours of mine are under the with nerves-do you wonder I called on a local doctor, who told me
be had nerve cases, yes. but the astonishing thing to him was that he hadn't got consider- ably more. "It's wonderful, the way people somehow keep control over themselves," he said. "Sim- ply wonderful. You might almost call it herole."
O
UTSIDE, two boys, four or five years old, sat on the pavement playing with a pile of gravel left there for road surfacing. Five nights of heavy planes, hurtling a couple of hundred feet above them, didn't make them look up.
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"They were big ones." I said.
m. Gloucester Gladiators,"
boy. bigger
the
said the
Go on," said the other, "you don't know anything; Bristol Bulldogs, those were."
Bristol Bulldogs?" jeered the first boy, gripping his spade pug- naciously, they're fighting ma- chines. Those there are bombers,
I left them to it.
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THIRD OF A SERIES
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ARTICLES FROM LONDON ON
Britain Prepares For War
EDITOR'S NOTE: In the next
war Britain, for the first time in 900 years, will be in grave danger of armed Invasion. In the past the navy kept her shores intact. The danger. now is from the air. To meat this modern peril, Britain is organising her civil population, Every able-bodied man and woman will have a job to do. This series of articles tells the story of Britain's army of "passive defence", and of the hundred-and-one other ways in which Britain is preparing for war at home.
By H. L. PERCY ... United Press Staff Correspondent
ACTUAL, visible evidence of Britain's preparation for the next war is practically non- existent. Most of the plans, possibly 90 per cent., are still on paper.
in A stronger arriving England would have a hard lob reconciling any ideas he might have that Britain is panic-strickenly throwing up the barricades with the actual facis.
The normal life of the country is scarcely ruffled. Defence is seldom a topic of conversation.
Almost the only concreto evidence. the stranger would see to-day are the trenches, relles of the September crisis. And they are not much to look at. Just long banks of upslung earth, marring the synimetry of the parks, and often as not half-full of water.
PROTECTION FOR 1,000,000
THEY were erude, hastily contrived affairs, and the government has now more or less abandoned them as a means of protection. It has ordered that those already dug are to be reinforced with aleel and kept in good condition, but no more are.... to be bulit. The banks of earth are to be made into flower-betis. They ean, if necessary, provide protection for about 1,000,000 people.
The stranger might also see a few men and women wearing little silver badges of various shapes in their button-holes. These are the insignia of the qualified air-raid precautions workers, or the auxiliary police, or one of the scores of other volunteer defence services.
would But the stranger
be un- usually fortunate if he were to meel one of these workers. In my oWEL quite-wide-circle-of-acquaintances, I know of barely half-a-dozen who have taken up A.R.P. work. There is of that definitely no sign os yet nation-wide response to the govern. ment's call to national service, for which it hopes.
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NEWSPAPER CRITICISM
THE STRANGER would gather most orbis information from the newspapers. Not a day passes with- out some story in all the papers." Sometimes just a paragraph record- ing the initiative of some local coun- cll. Sometimes a front-page story on
government announcement. More often than not, a criticism of existing conditions.
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And always there are advertise- ments for air-raid protection, from two-line "classifieds" to full-page spreads. They offer shelters, shovels, polls, asbestos sults, wardrobes, for keeping air-raid kit, sand-bags, and a hundred and one articles that might be useful in a
In a dug-out.
"The shelters range from crude
affairs of
In the back-led Iron over a hole
which cost about £1., to de-luxe concrete, plil-boxes, fully equipped, from £20 upwards,
The shovels and pails are for handling Incendiary bombs, They followed the government's statement. that every household should be equip ped with a long-handled shovel and a large tin pall. The idea is that if an Incendiary' bomb drops" in your parlour you can scoop it into a pall... ful of sand and rush it out of harm's way.
Continuing the stranger's adven- tures; he would undoubtedly' cm-. barrass nine people out of ten if he asked them what they had done with their gaa-maaks.
Forty million of them were distri- buted in crisis week. Previously the government had said that they would be stored to provest deterioration, But after the crisis, It, was decided: to let the publle take care of them,
and cardboard were to be pro.........:
vided for them.
Most people threw them into u cupboard, out of sight and mind. Others gave them to the children to play with. A few, found them any satisfactory means of comunitung sufelde,
One man, at least, destroyed his. He was summoned for damaving government properly, but the magi-· strate ruled that it was his own pro perty, the gift of the government.
There was an order that local A.R.P. organisations should visit every household and check up "On their maske, Treplating fatity; once. of which there, word: many, in: the September rush. But, thir Tan pro
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