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PALESTINE, AND

BEYOND

From an objective and unsenti- mental point of view, the difficul- ties of Jews in Europe seems a question of even greater import- ance than their status in the Holy Land. Millions of Jews (there are only, some 400,000 in Pales- tine) now. desperately need re- fuge from political persecution or discrimination.

the United States may well go beyond asking for American intercession in be half of Jewish rights in Pales- tine. That small country never could support more than a small fraction of to-day's persecuted Jews.

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* An immediate international effort to help this unfortunate people is called for both by the ordinary humane impulses of mankind and by practical-con- siderations for the welfare : of people other than Jews. For The Arab revolt in Palestine the-unrest provoked by sudden coincides with, and therefore is and haphazard movements of suspected of taking encourage great numbers of peoples: dis- ment from, the decline in the turbs the economic and political prestige of democratic power in equilibrium of the entire work. Europe which in the Near East The responsibilities of Britain in as in the Far East apparently is Palestine are uncomfortable. felt to have resulted from the But they are no more important Munich agreement. This is one than those which must be shared explanation of the firmness with by other nations.

which-Britain is curbing Arab

violence in Palestine. Swift and

stern action is required not only The Grand Old Game to restore order but to create an attitude among Arabs which will make possible the new steps to ward solution of the problem in the Holy Land, which have be come more urgent at this time when Jews need more acutely than they have in some genera tions a place of refuge from persecution.

Not since the Loch Ness Mons- ter has there been anything quite the equanimity so likely to upset th of a Scotsman as the assertion. that golf' was not originally...... a Scottish game. Yet this “dis- covery" by Harvard professors isn't so new after all. The 1985. British interest in the plight edition of Columbia Encyclopedia of Jews should not be put down referred to goif as a game which merely to the Allies' need of although it "seems to have origin- Jewish support in the World ated in Holland has become War. The Balfour Declaration identified with Scotland, where promising the Jews a national it was introduced in the 16th home in 1917 did have ás öné of century."

Its aims the bolstering of that The professors who, while con- support, just as promises to the ducting a research into interna- Arabs that indigenous populations tional law, uncovered an engiay- in the Near East would acquire ing of Huig van Groot showing the right of self-government the great Renaissance. authority aimed at obtaining Arab aid on jurisprudence as youth Yet we find Britain in 1903 offer holding a golf club, cháva per ing a Jewish home in African haps corroborated what suntil now. Uganda.

was only supposed to be the fact. was brought to #Israel Zangwill was in the How. the game forefront of those Jewish writers Scotland is still a subject for spe- and intellectual leaders who re- culation, but the fact that it was fused to consider such alter-introduced to Scotland, where it natives as Wganda. As Lewis has for at least five centuries Browne many years later been a well-established sport, plained:

beyond question..

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Palestine is a small, ungen- Scotland can lose little glory erous, and already populated by this latest revelation, for Its land, and were we gulded by part infopularlingt common sense rather than cannot be minimized. émotion we should seek a minds of most homeplace less difficult to make over, the our own. Yet the fact remains hike win

With Scotland that no other attracts powerfully: Indeed, no other Ancient GoLE seems to attract us at all. drews, founded However, now that results been recognized efforts to make good the Balfour tional shrine of golf.