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TROUBLED PALESTINE

hind the Arab nationalists lie the Pan-Arablan movement and the Moslem world; the Jews draw strength from the resources of international Jewry.

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Britain has earnestly attempt- ed to break down the deadlock resulting from the incompati- bility of Arab and Jewish`aspira- tions, and the Royal Commission that reported last year, conclud- ing that the present arrange- ment under the Mandate is un- workable, sought to cut the Gordian knot by the proposal of partition. Three months ago, a Partition Commission arrived in Palestine and began its unenvi- able task of finding ways and Palestine is still suffering from means, at once equitable and the renewed outbreak of law-practical, of dividing the coun- lessness, and the past week has try between Arab and Jew, with witnessed further bombing out a neutral section under British rages and acute Arab-Jewish Mandate. The present troubles tension. The casualties in these reveal again how difficult is the disturbances are mounting to task of the Commission. The

figures, and serious

armed Jews, although disliking the clashes have been accompanied partition proposals, are willing to Arabs pre- by railway sabotage, and such co-operate, but the

of the cold-serve their intransigent antagon- tragedies as that blooded murder on Saturday of a ism to any Jewish State. British police officer in a bus. certain considerations offer hope; One significant feature of the one is that Arab and Jew have disturbances is that, whereas lived peacefully together in other Arab terrorists were mainly res communities. The same harmony ponsible for past violence, whe should not be entirely impractic- ther anti-Zionist or anti-British, able in Palestine, if moderation Jewish elements are now organis-replaces the violence of extrem- ing forces of counter-terrorism. ism. Great Britain, too, by vir- Thus the position of the British tue of her complex Empire, has authorities, in their task of had a unique experience in re- "keeping the ring" between Arab solving racial, religious, and na- and Jew, becomes more difficult tionalist conflicts, so that success than ever. Although force con- in other fields offers some pró- stitutes no solution for the deep-mise for troubled Palestine. She er Palestine problem, it is equally cannot take up any mere defeat- manifest that the British au- ist attitude, and, having secured thorities, charged with the res the first necessity of public or- ponsibility of government under der, she must press on to another the Mandate, must take firm achievement of British political measures to restrain lawlessness, capacity. from whatever quarter it may come. They cannot permit inno- The Longest Surname? cent people to become the victims of nationalist violence, and their l paramount duty is to peace and order.

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The Diwan of Kochin's claim restore that he has the longest surname in the world-nineteen words British firmness on this occa-long-depends on the question are admitted sion will, perhaps, be reinforced whether hyphens

by the comments in the report of or not; if they are, a nineteen- the Royal Commission on Pales-letter surname compares ill with tine that the local Administra-quite a number in our country, alone Germany. These tion, unwilling to adopt repres-let sive measures, allowed too much | hyphenated names originate in ways. Two ancient scope to the fomenters of the different 1936 disturbances. It is essen-families may come together and tial to recognise here that the it may be desired to keep the political unrest in Palestine, with names of both in existence. Often its consequent expressions of it has happened that lands have violence, would exist no matter been left on condition that the what Power held the Mandate. legatee should add the name or It springs, not from any admin-names of the orginal holder to istrative policy, but from a his own; sametimes they have hitherto irreconcilable clash of been adopted by a cadet branch Arab and Jewish ideals and sen- and have lapsed again for lack of timents, a clash of which Britain male heirs.

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must bear the brunt. If it is In the records of the dukedom true that British Governments in of Ormonde there is one cadet a name of the past, by the Balfour Declara- branch which had tion and pledges to the Arabs, thirty-four letters, and there was helped to create the problem of a Vernon cadet who had twenty- Palestine as a "too much prom-seven. But there are plenty of ised land,” Arab and Jew aspira-long ones left. There tions also have ancient historical baronetcy which supports the roots. Thus Zionism naturally burden of Milborne Swinnerton- desires Jewish salvation in its Pilkington and another which is One Holy Land, while the Arabs are Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons. ready to fight, not only for their of the greatest of our titles, the national existence against a Ancaster earldom, which was threatening flood of Jewish im-once a dukedom, has for surname migration, but also for that Heathcote-Drummond - Willough- sovereign independence of which by. We have an Admiral Plun- the Arab States of Saudi Arabia, kett-Ernle-Erle-Drax. The Earl the Yemen, Iraq, and Egypt offer of Buckinghamshire has the ma- inciting examples. Arab and jestic surname of Hobbart-Hamp Jew are fired by enthusiasm for den Mercer - Henderson. Hep- conflicting nationalist causes, re-burn-Stuart Forbes Trefusis is ligious and racial differences another generous name. There is deepen the conflict, and the issue a Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mac is complicated by the additional kenzie in the Red Books. The need of a home for the Jewish Duke of Sutherland has Suther- refugees driven by persecution land-Leveson-Gower for a sur- from

any and Central name, and Twistleton-Wykeham Europa

Is the Palestine Fiennes might reasonably be probl

local one jube called a tongue-twister,