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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1946.

Partition Palestine's

Best Hope

Of Peace

Sir Reginald Coupland, Beit and Ireland in 1020-1 is by not of minority rights in the Partition Professor of Colonial History at incans exacs, but if the und were treaty: they would make the Oxford, is a member' of tho the same there would be the same redies by their condue. Royal Commission on Patestine) sense of

reticf.

It not to be expected thai. (the Peet Commission), 1956+37. ' It is confirmed by Dr. Welzfter living a minority life for so in so many NGS Al the Conference which opene, mann's letter of August 16, just jong an age

published that the Zionists would and having sattered, as no other the other day one more enurt is

settlement by Partition people has ever Aufered, at the being made ta`volve the prooium 9.

Accept a Palestine,

provided they were said with hands of majoritis, the Jews, the aren allotted to the Jewish majority therewives at

inst. State. Dr Weizmann persuaded feel inled to show the wor

nority should be trentra: the Zionis. Congress to necept is how

Secondly, the Arab antagonism to the Jew, forcer and note widesprend as it is now tina 42 any earlier time, is mare deeply felt by the intelligentsis than by

reace Palestine is not only a matter of deep sentiment concern o the aaherents of the three great regions for whom it is a log เ น

It is also a matter of the inediate urgency in the workaday world.

By SIR REGINALD COUPLAND

And not for Arabs and Jews! alone, The execution of the Bri-| ish mandate for Palestine was a

in In principle

1937 ungrateful enough from Palestine

Reportal difficult and

suggest that the task before the war. It has now:

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It la mainly the country folk. scattered as they are among the Jewish rural settlements, who will find themselves under Jewish gove Froment; and there, la som, trett in the Jewish contention that, if they had been left to themselves

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wages for their labour and good prices for their produce.

thorities to the civil Quartering | burden. But we cannot run away standing example are recovering Authority which eventually should from it. In Palestine, as in In-their leadership of the Nationa Highten the task of accommodating dia, we cannot surrender our res

same prior them to some extent. The influsponsibilities without

internal strife Settlement of the will nevertheless, seriously ag

which, unless it is resolved, would gravate an already difficult situa destroy all hope of peace when feature of Partition which, above tian. There are many present-day we the neutrals, have departed all else, makes Partition accept residents, living in hosels, wh It would not be pence in Palos able to the Jews-free immigri- have been vainly seeking a house tine only that would be endanger. tion--makes it unacceptable to the ed. Stability in the Eastern Arabs. They envisage such a for Hat for months, and seem ng

Mediterranean and the lands multitude of homeless Jews nearer success today than when around it is n necessity for the streaming through the

The doubling opened

of the Arab

It was, of course, on the identity they began. The new weight on effective operation of any system dopra of their State that it will population since the mandate ba

collective

to operate ** a highly of reonomic interest in Palestine of

security. A peaceful

soon be overcrowded, and they ca

and the most and beyond it that the British settlement of the Palestine pro- predict that the surplus will in significant fact, blem is much more than a British

evitably spill over into the Arai stenificant astret of it is that the statesmen who backed the Balfour Declaration based their main hoe nterest. It is comunun interest State, and A0 revive, in more herea has been greatest in the

of its successful vicinity

outcome. Bat of Jewish all the

United Nations.

time for that to be realised was ments. At the Conference the essential meeing form than ever, the dan-1

Only the other day--and it had denied by Hitler. From 1933 on British attitude must clearly laser of Jewish domination.

That is a genuine and intellig). that of mediators. The British ble fear; there is no hope of Aral happened more than ane before-wards the volume of Jewish im

Al Government must do all they can acquiescence in Partition unless it Arab villagers welcomed the migration vastly increased.

tablishment of a settlement by co-can be expressed; and it can only "coles" in their midst and at

26 new Jewish bug the political issue was forced

to the front, and economics wer Inaugural

.orgotten.

But the fact of a common econ-

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CITATONY.

promote sent. If such a settlement were be exorcised if the Arabs are con reached it may be taken for grant vinced that, so far from increased the ed that the British Governmenting the risk of Jewish domination. They know nothing of nationalism, for their part would nccept it. So, Partition is the surest available but they know that the coming omic interest remains; and, if only presumably, would the Govern-safeguard against it. ment of the United States.

be thrown into the scale threatens to overbalance the whole Structure. For many of the new- comers, doubtless, accommodatizes! is waiting, but it is safe to assur that a feast fifty per cent. wi enter into the rather grim cor petition that is now going on, and the time is rapidly approachin when Government must make a its mind that it is not contribut ing as it should to a solution. Crit cism grows daily, and much of it s more than justified. Under pre sent conditions, the big bongs, with the power of their wealth, inter preted into terms of ability to mee heavy bilk for repairs to beuse for their staffs. u're virtuali

Two solutions can be at once cornering the market." The little ruled out as offering no chance, nun has a poor chance. In many whatever of acceptance, in one vases, the allotment of de-requisicase by the Jews, in the other by

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¡to have suffered extensive damag since the military occupation would be merely tantalising he cause of absence of finds in mee the repair bill. But complain goes deeper than that. It is that the private individual, in dealin with the Quartering Authority

Jaa

of the Jews

would mean tool the Conference aucceeds, it only

the political issue can be laid to

at by n nettlement in which both Arabs and Jews can reasonably pulence, is it loo much to hepo that that fact will reassert itself and that, in course of time. the divided peoples may come together

the common task of developing and enriching their common birth- land?

Which policy is more likely to foster the growth of economic realism-the continued subjection of both peoples to mandatory con- trol in an undivided Palestine, or Partition into separate Statez, free to. deal with each other on an equal footing?

Misconceptions Of Munich

By RANDOLPH "CHURCHILL

:

The sanctity of frontiers is the. first

and indispensable condition of What, then, are the prospects uny civilised system of interna a settlement in which both Arabs tions) relations. It is Inconceiv. and Jews would concur, and along able that the Jews would violate the frantier between their State what-lines"

would be an and the Arab

Some time buck, I was then was the United States of course, there was much critic- act of aggressive war. 3

suicidal definner of the international ardes, in Chicago and thus had an op- America. Consequently, no one ism, particularly from people Nor is it conceivable that the riunity to read the "greatest has the right to suggest that who had no intention of allow- was in any ing the United States to becoma international guarantors of the newspaper in the world," ng Col. Britain's honour

wou'? Robert Rutherford McCormick way affected hy our failure to involved if war had resulted The Jews will never 'concede the Partition Treaty which

from the Czechoslovakian crisis. demand of the Mufti and his col- doubtless declare that the frontier still proclaims the Chicago Tri- fight in defence of Czechoslo

President Roosevelt, on the engues that the whole of Palex would not be changed without tis bune to le. I have often been vakin.. iny should become an independent consent of both parties concerned Mezzed by this boast, for the It would not be worth while other hand, sent a telegram ip cauld be pursueded by Jewish circulation of the Chicago Tri- ventilating this matter were it Muse:lini congratulating him State under Arab majority

Lebensraum to break

Ene in less than one-third of The Arabs will never sequiese pleas for

not for the fact that miseon- on his statesmanship in helping to bring about the Munich con- the

the

faith. if no trust can be placed that of the London Daily Exceptions about what was done at whole of

Тегелее. Palestine into a Jewish-majority in a treats so drawn and guar-

convertion of State by what the Peri Commis anteed, there can be no security less. I could only suppose that (ISC+ the word sion called the "creeping

qualitative en for anyone anywhere in the world. the Coloreal of steadily continued im- Assume, for the sake of urgu- "greatest" in the finds that as property become question.

the quantitative "And, however, past

past ment, that the Arabs come to rather than de-requisitioned, it is allotted in large blocks to Big Business or promises may be construed--and realise that Partition is the best sense. Ife means, I judge, that imte, the Tribune is the best paper in they are admittedly conflicting defence they can obtain; assunte, ternatively cominandeered to

it may be taken for granted that too, that its technical difficulties the world.

overcome. be.

There remains Government servants, There is n

the British Government and Parlin can place for the individualist. Th ment would regard either of those the hardest crux-the panition of add man out is definitely out. It i

two extreme solutions as a viola- the Arab minority in the Jewish

State.- not altogether surprising that thi tion of justice and good faith. man who, onthaps, fought for the Colony and lost his house and his home, feels entitled to more syn pathetic consideration. There is. n'

no final solution to th problem capable of being inne diately applied. But the issue doe take us back to the old argument that Government should either un- dertake to repair property for civi- Han use, or, as a minimun accep- tance of some responsibility, au thorise building loans,

COUISE,

+

However the frontier is drawn It was, these same two claims substantial number of Araba mus: with which the Peel Commission left on the Jewish side of .

wore confronted nine years ago; and their Report describes how, in their search for a middle way be- tween them, they were driven to the conclusion that the only hope of an ultimate healing of the brench lay in the drastle surgery of Partition.

They

recommended that, apart from a mandatory enclave for the protection of the holy places and the approach thereto, Palestine should be divided into an Arah and a Jewish area and that, after an interins period of preparation, these areas should become senar Things are looking up. The anate independent States, associated nouncement by the Star Ferry in a treaty system,

Of late, public interest in the

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That is one strong there are others, of course-whe Partition cannot be imposed. I the Arabs were united in resisting it they could make the Jewish ernment of the Jewish State well- high impossible.

But given acquiescence, the crux of the Arab minority can be overstated. In the Aral place it seems more than probable that the Jews won'd not only desire the in- clusion of the fullert safeguards

geven

Have

As t the motives which animated Mr. Chamberlain, two were undoubtedly uppermost in his mind. First of all, he was of Britain's Munich are by no means con- keenly conscioua

ined to the Chiengo Tribune.

lack ef armaments. As the first This being so, I was all the Left-wing propagandists have or second most powerful poli- more surprised to find-an error succeeded in convincing them ticlan in the British Govern-

ment for the previous of fact in the first editorial. selves and, what is wore, a The article, which was strongly large majority of public opinion years, he had leason to know isolationist in outlook, contained that the Munich agreement was the extent to which he and his the the following sentence: "We engineered by the late Neville colleagues had neglected (the United States) were not Chamberlain and a handful of national defence. bound by solemn treaty to defend, Tory reactionaries who had Chamberlain's second main

was to try to the independence and territorial some secret affection and ad- mative

and the France frem a position in which Czechoslovakja: | miration for Hitler integrity of England and France were.” Nazi regime. The fact in that she might be dishonoured. It was There is, of course, no basis the Munich agreement was en- reliably reported to the British whatever. for the assertion that dorsed at the time by 00 per cent Government that, if Czechoslo Britain was under any obliga- of the British people, irrespec- vakia were invaded, France, tion at the time of Munich to tive of class or party. And the despite her treaty obligations defend Czechoslovakia against nly robust criticism of it came which were of a most precise refine to aggresion. Unlike France. from Winston Churchill, An-character. would Britain had a treaty, "solemn" thany Eden and a handful of march. Since France, at that tential ally in the event of a "unsolemn," with that cone-Conservative Members of Par-time, was Britains only try, Britain was no more com-lament.

Jn the United States.

Germany; it of war with mitted to defend Czechoslovakia

highly desirable to find some way of saving France's face.

I am not defending these motives. I was one of the small minority who hoped that: Cze- choslovakia would stand firm

We Can Fight Typhoid

:

Typhoid in not caught by

open drain "breathing over an

Typhoid To-day

By ANTHONY WEYMOUTH

of infection...

evid There is also convincing

po-

Was

the typical rose-coloured spots ap- and that France, Britain and pear and the spleen enlarges.

Soviet Russia would go to her If there is any doubt as to the defence. There is no doubt that diagnosis the laboratory can assiKe

typhoid is

the war

in the rates for monthly tickets to tho. Commission, it is asked, have $6, almost back to 1941, was foleen right in thinking that Parti

tion-not necessarily, of course, lowed later by announcement of a

ot in electricity charges. Thby the precise frontier which they as I was once told. Neither is it suggested-was. despite its ob Hong Kong Electric Company's technical difficulties, a more carried by the air like smallpoș,

by an examination of the blood, we would have won

· easily more

in 1988 in- The outbreak in the British between the ages of 30 to 45; but If it is a case of typhoid, agglu- chairman, promising a reduction heeful treatment of the problem measles and influenza.

The small in- from 1941 plus 260 per cent. than any other that had been dis- rep plus 209 per cent, as from ussed? And, if so, was Partition Isles originating in Aberystwyth the incidence of typhoid is highes; tination takes place: that is, the stead of 1989.

of 1037. Both giris -tween 15 and 20. That cells of the blood "clump" together, crease in armaments effected by This test was positive with the Great Britain in the twelve- October 1, indicated that a fur really quite impracticable? "Where is the only serious one since the

epidemle London

of the

carrier at month breathlug space counted ther reduction in the fairly neur

here's a will, there's a way,

by the were caused by a carrier-an in Aberystwyth epidemic was con-lood

entirely to young Aberystwyth,

for nothing, in the scales of future can be hoped for. The Anglo-American

The scherae. ex-dividual who, though not ill him- ned almost

people,

Anyone suspected of being a military strength, against the Water, milk or other food be China Light and Power Company, perts and accepted by the British self, nets as the unwilling host of operators of the Kowloon fran Government accords with this the bacillus. The man who marile comes contaminated by the baci cartier can be examined and if the I:en of Czechoslovakia

Watercress

positive Kesult

stens can be fighting force, the immense him, infecting increase in German military chise, have issued no statement yet, rent of opinion. But it does not factured the ice-cream which hapus contaminated

cause To the

of the and oyster-beds may be the soures taken to prevent others. As NOON length of Partition. It con- pened to be the

(13 à ens of

strength, and the decline, la but it is presumed that they will ades a large measure of autonpiny epidemic has boen proved to be ni

actually diagnose, shortly fall into line.. These are Arab and Jewish provinces, but carrier who had suffered from the

and people which followed tho welcome signs. They suggest we} 'L reserves for the Central Govern, disease in 1038, 1t was not teence that Dies can carry the in-, every effort is made to find out morale of the French Armé fare getting started in the rundment not only the normal central cream that was dangeroun, but fection. Flies, we all know, are the soures of infection

dirty feelers and have an 1973- The first case at Aberystwyth Munich agreement.

But those with were not heir was admitted to hospital on July. back towards normal, even though "subjects" such as foreign affairs the carrier.

Through The Mouth pleasant habit of sticking their 27. The authorities promptly in themselves prepared of the day there be a very long way to go and defence, but also the final de

to fight against Inmigration and the

nave into everything that come Typhoid fever is caused by

to vestigated the supplies at water of Munich Prive control over many commo: direct control of law and order.

de microbe discovered by Eberth in with reach. if they chance dities is now, happily, fairly sue- As Col.

Stanley pointed out in 1850. It enters the body through in so into material infected with and milk in the neighbourhood. Hitter have right to cast Both were found to be satisfactory stones at those who signed this cesfully established and is being the recent deleste in the House of mouth and settles in certain the bacillen typhosis and

Two days later the infection Ind fl-fated agreement. Many of the progressively extended. The work Conimons. The wenkness of the matches of lympheld tissue in the into food, they treta contaminate been traced to a single barrel of most voluble critics of the

Once food has been intestine. These become

no case having Munich agreement would not of repair on damaged property ap scheme is its lack of finality. It small

the scene is set for an epidemic: co-cream, pears 14 be increasing in scales oven to the critlelsins made by inflamed and the bacteria prodal for anyone who eats much, foodį surred 'öxcept among people who have fought then.. Some of them:

areas. In which is encourging in spite & Peel Commission on what was their toxins in, these

then called Cantanization; and in duo these toxins enter may develop typhoid, though it by had eaten from this barrel. Other did not even tight when they

cases occurred among people wh The fact that the black market still articular provides no solution the blood, giving rise to

.the no means follows that he had been to Aberystwyth but had had a chance to do so between | dominates this important "aphore for the inevitable conflict between symptoms typical of the discase.

1939 and 1945. Unless prompt steps are takei.

returned individual Buffering from the Inf activity, Government having re-Jews and Area at the Centre.

Bost people who have had

Value Of Inoculation

FOUND BY fected all proposals which might V

typhold get rid of the germ once dincasa may pass it on to others.

The symptoms of the disease

Now that medical sofanco has have provided a measure of con

ACCIDENT 1.The scheme han already been and for all. But a fow unfor trol. Transport facilitles are grows condemned bath by the Arab lead-tunates, although themselves per-usually appear about a fortnight many to investirate every out

from the date of Jufretion. Heads break front the time the frat cans

Jerusalem, Sept. 26. trol. Trainer facilities are grown and by the exokosment of the feetly: ft, carry, the bacilius, by ache, lassitude and abdominal di sottos, and has kngylidza bt. Government announcement Expusta) "plane “that” no Signp:ofim& Jowish, Agency Nor bas. It had their bodies, sometimes for my comfort nin followed, 'h'daydir two the hooiilus and 3 nabits, it is¡ tutlay: sald' that "'q'civilian"

Amen. Kany, to provent the spread of this eldentally alumbled on a huge It ja angest fact that inars later, by fever,

than my * Symptoms May Vary - Cazaie. There is also a valuable cache of man the Trut

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