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PALESTINE PROBLEM

himself believes in the idea of the Balfour Declaration and the National Home. He acknowledges how much the Jewish immi- grants have done for Palestine; he said that but for them the Arabs, instead of being now nearly a million, would have re- mained the 600,000 that they were twenty years ago. Jewish intelligence and industry have raised the whole standard of liv- ing in Palestine, and would, by the same means, in time influence that of the neighbouring coun- tries also. Actually the Jews themselves suffer for their vir- tues; they raise the social and economic standards in Palestine, for Arabs as well as for them- selves, and then find that they cannot have a State of their own because an Arab State could not support the standards to which the Palestinian Arabs have by Mr. nów become accustomed. MacDonald, however, while ad- mitting the least that can be said-and it is only one 'point- about the wonderful achievement of the Jews in Palestine, in effect remits everything to the confer- ence; he falls back on the des- perate hope that at last the two sides will agree. Everyone shares Mr. Malcolm MacDonald may

the hope, but we seem to be like well say that a critical point has the lost who travel in a circle. been reached in the preparations After sixteen anxious, wasted for the discussions on Palestine months we arrive where the Peel Commission started. The Peel with the Arabs and the Jews, Report pointed out that "at every every discussion, in for it is evident that both parties crisis, ́in' are going into the conference with every official statement, it had been firmly and sometimes elo minimum demands impossible of

quently reaffirmed" that Jews fulfilment except by favouring and Arabs must somehow work one as against the other. The amicably together if each race Government, in the meantime, is was to develop happily under the (2) in that uncomfortable position of LEADER..... having no policy about Pales-mandate. The Jews had said the tine.

same, and “only one voice was the The "Partition" of the Peel missing from the chorus Commission, it has pitched over; Arab voice." Hence the man- it has also rejected one or two date was declared unworkable; more, like the Woodhead Com-hence the case for Partition, the mission's plans (not that the separation of the races, which

believed Commission itself

in the Government welcomed them), and at the moment it has warmly in July last year, not another handy. But let no claring that the conflict was, in one mistake; if the London con- its view, "irreconcilable" and that ference between Arabs and Jews the "best and most hopeful solu- does not produce agreement the tion" was Partition "on the gen- Government is going to have. aeral lines" recommended by the plan, and no nonsense. Mr. Mal-Commission. colm MacDonald says 80; the Government recognises that the

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Partition is dead and the man-

present uncertainty must cease, date is declared "almost unwork- and as it has itself been for able." Nevertheless, it is to the over two years the image of un-mandate, unless the conference certainty it ought to know. In agrees on some third "solution," the meantime the absence of any that the Government: must re-

cramps policy undoubtedly

a turn. Its essence is that a National Minister's style. Other Ministers Jewish Home must be develop- no doubt will welcome the con-ed; its interpretation is not that ference because it puts off for a only so many (or so few) 'Jews few more months the pain of may be accepted as will appease taking a decision. But Mr. Mac- the Arabs but as many as the the Donald, who has always recog-economic development of nised the dangers of delay, can country justifies. The result so an achievement-social, now only express unexceptionable far is sentiments about the conference. | economic, and cultural such as "It is in the best interests of has no fellow. anywhere since the the Jews that future policy in Great War. To stop the process, Palestine should, so far as pos-with the Arab population rapidly sible, be based on a wide agree-growing, would be to cripple ment," and if both sides would Palestine, to throw it back to- make concessions, "then peace wards the anaemic, primitive and prosperity would return" to economy from which the Jews Palestine. True, but after the have raised, it. Whatever the Peel Commission, the Woodhead conference proposes, however the Commission, the Parliamentary Government at last makes up its debates, the reference to the mind, and whatever, special mea- Mandates Commission and the sures be taken to deal with the Council of the League, the White more purely Jewish and Arab Paper accepting "Partition," the areas, it is essential that immi- White Paper preparing a plank gration should continue on such for the victim, and the White a scale that the lively organišta Paper shoving him off, we get which has been growing up since no nearer to the mind of the 1922 should not be starved and Government, assuming that it stunted. Nor is it to be forgotten has one, than that its policy is that in the whole world there is to facilitate Jewish immigration only one country that both can under. suitable conditions.” And and will at this moment take and what does that mean?

maintain a great number Mr. MacDonald was, of course, 100,000 of the persecuted Jews, sympathetic about the Jews; he and that is Palestine.

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