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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1946.

This is the second of three articles on Pales tine, which the Jews want as a national home and the Arabs want as an independent State: President Truman in his recent Yom Kippur (Jewish Day of Atonement) message once again urged immediate and substantial Jewish migration to Palestine. This article des cribes the growth of Jewish terrorism in the Holy Land and Britain's interest in the coun- try.

Terrorists' bombs dominate the Land of Peace today

Hoops of rubble lie where a British Government office once stood. a coiling barbed-wire ferce mars ancient and chce- beautiful views, no scene without its soldier, its armor or its roadblock. These are theļ signs of terrorism in Palestine.

It is the Jewish terrorism that dominates the lives of 2.000,000 people in this land. It keeps Great Britain on a war footing in Palestine. It is the present in dominant fact at the age-old contention for the

Holy Land.

Seeds of present-day terror- ism were sown in 1936 when Arab resentment against con-

land purchases exploded into a three-year-blood-letting

was the admitted blasting last July of the King David Hotel, in which the British Govern- ment has rented rooms for its Secretariat since 1930.

That blast, in which nearly 100 died, marked the start of a new chapter in: British mili- tary "tactics in Palestine, Secur-

SECOND OF THREE

ARTICLES BY CARTER DAVIDSON

ity regulations were tightened, the Holy Land, particularly "Fortress Jerusalem," was more

wire barricados.

suzerainty over vital installa- tluna around Jerusalem, and would keep the Negev, or scuthern Palestine desert, a long, wedge of land between Egypt and Tranajordan, east of the Suez Canal.,

Geologists are seeking off in the Negev for the first time, but the resulta

not known publicly.

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seems doubtful, however, whether this description could-be-stretched to include the new advertising Jewish settlers, urged with n hoardings that are threatening to wink of the British Govern- menal eye, armed themselves make their appearance on railway into a Haganah (Hebrew word ground immediately opposite the for "defence") organisation to Peninsula Hotel. To put the obfend off Arab vengeance raiders. HONGKONG-BANGKOK Thursday, 28th Nov.jection in its simplest form, the Jewish Aim HONGKONG-MANILA ... Friday, 29th Nov. HONGKONG-SHANGHAI Monday, 2nd Dec. HONGKONG-SAN FRANCISCO

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“What do you mean, you didn't see me?' Did you think this was just an old head someone left lying here?"

For

World's Quest

Permanent Peace

Britain's Job Disregarding the international apocts, Britain's job inside Palestine is to administer land which has been torn by troubles between the Arabs and Jews, and frequently by anti-{

influence Palestina policy. The law of Palestine is Quarter Girls The Irgun is the most fanaigh Commissioner, represent- tically nationalistic of the three in the King. The present underworld bands, using as its High Commissioner is Sir Alan symbol a map of Palestine and Canuingham.

The High Commissioner pre- Transjordan, over which is printed a clenched fist holding after consulting his advisory mulgates laws by ordinance, a rifle. Its membership is about net income must be relatively From that start in a citizens' 5000, perhaps a fourth of them council of department heads. Government departments under small and the aesthetic insult army, armed Jews have

des girls, and a majority of them enormous. There is no condemna-cended through political

the Secretariat, now headed by Folish. According to police sir John Shaw, administer dex-

The iden of the United Na-ciples embodied in the Atlantic tion of advertising hoardings, per peration into present-day ter-ords, hook-nosed, bespectacled

ticas was born out of war and Charter. these laws. Menahem Belgin via Manila...Tuesday, 3rd Dec.se. They have their place in the rorist gangs whose aim, p-

- (pronounced

Financially, Palestine pays developed into a mutual or- Agents:

modern world, as long as the purently, is to try to coerce the Bay Gun) leads them. He has its own way by customs, taxes, ganisation with prevention of

The Pledge is an HONG KONG CANTON EXPORT CO., LTD.fficult to feel satisfied that into giving way to Zionism.

appropriate one. If British Mandatory Government been in hiding since his arrival and postal fees, except for oc-war as its main aim.

in Falestine. Once a Polish

casions) grants-in-aid from thei The United Nations.

B9 an The signers pledged themselves 3rd floor, French Bank Building,

Responsible Jewry, men and soldier, he has a price now of British for security measures organisation was conceived by to employ their full military Telephole No. 23600

this applies to the foreground of Kowhorn Office:

an establishment of the standard women who plot the political, 2500 on his head.

Alost deadly of the under and certain limited industrial the late President Roosevelt and and economic resources against economic, and diplomatic aci-

common enemies. They Peninsula Hotel Arcade Tei. 58240.

of the Peninsula Hotel, even ac-vancement of Palestine, dis-ground terrorists is the Stern subsidisation. The country has Winston Churchill at the As all cepting that the concealment of claim responsibility for terror- gang of about 500 desperadoes, cost Britain £17,000,000 in lantic Charter meeting in 1941. agreed not to conclude separate the railway from view would per- ism, but admit their inability heavily armed, and specialising of maintaining British Army, Woodrow Wilsen, originally pro-

20 years in grants, plus the cost

Another American President, peace or armistice agreements.

The next step toward an or and general haps be no very great loss. That, to curb it. The British Govern in assassinations

Last posed the League of Nations ganisation that would operato in itself, is beside the point. One ment contends Jewish political thuggery under the guise of Navy, and Air Forces.

year's grants totalled £3,000,- after the first World War. in peace as well as in war was day, we hope, Hong Kong may leaders are involved in some of Zionist nationalism."

000.

Originally, the United Nations the signing of a declaration by Abraham Stern, once a pri-

Promises look forward to the restoration of the terrorist acts,

was a fighting team. Its mem- the United States, Britain, the tourist traffic. The Colony, the whole Jewish community soner in the police prison at

Acre, Palestine, formed his During World Wars I and II, berg were banded together by Russia and China.

common aim: to overcome

That declaration: set forth however, will ill serve efforts to responsible.

These are the steps by which mob of a few dozen fanatic, in both of which Britain haaa

the principles upon which the cultivate this extremely valuable Jewish self-protection became about a third of them women needed support in the Arab and

and began stealing guns and Jewish worlds, British officials By JOHN A. PARRIS, ur powers. agreed that: a

broad system of international. obtrusions of this nature at points Haganah, organised for de- ammunition from the Haganah. have signed a variety of docu-

Jnr.

Co-operation and security should which offer no means of escape. fence only; was too passive for Police trapped and killed Polish-ments making promises to

be based. Time was when the Peninsula, many of the young Jews, who born Stern when he tried to Arabs or Jews. Jendeavoured to improve upon its wanted to

Arab escape arrest in Tel-Aviv Thetances include the Me- the greatest threat in historyThen followed the Dumbarton pursue the raider to his lair.

Trained, 1942

Mahon Correspondence and the to their individual freedom as Oaks proposals for a world. Shortly after that Nathan Balfour Declaration. The Merations and to the freedom peace and security organisation European

Inte in 1944. many, of them, in

Next came the organisational But behind that aim was n underground tactics and sabo Friedman Yellin, a well-edu Mahon Correspondence compris of all mankind. tage, about 2000 boys and girls,cated, 33-year-old Polish sured 10 letters exchanged in 1915

conference in San Francisco broke away from Haganah and veyor, took over the leadership. by Sir Henry McMahon, then

Military The police have placed a 41250 Eritish High Commissioner in the peace they were fighting to last year when the world charter.

bounty on his head.

Cairo, and the Sheriff Hussein win, and to solve problems such was written and signed by 51 Terrorism in Palestine rules of Mecca, King of the Hedjaz, as those that led to World War,

The United Nations as an the lives of Palestinians, both and father of the present King II and the one that began in

organisation to maintain peace

· 1914. Abdullah of Transjordan.

and security, however, was not Jews and Arab,

Bri- The formal birth of the Unit-born until January 10, 1946, The state

MeMahon, said, “Great of affairs in Palestine materially affects tain is prepared to recognise ed Nations was the adoption in when the first General: Adr Britain's political, economic, and support the Independence Washington, D.C., on January: Council of Foreign Ministers is, nounced that it would cease its

The present "session of the Irgun Zvai Leumi publicly an audi military position in the of the Arabs" throughout the 1, 1942, of the "declaration by sembly was held in London. 2 The 51 nations united by Arab countries, excepting "twa the United Nations.". Some 20 war set cut on the road along not producing results that are underground operations, and

and nations signed the declaration, which they hope to remain unit In the opinion of some districts. of Mersina very encouraging. The Council help the Allies in the war.

of subscribing to the common pro ed in peace.. veteran British observers, Alexandretta (now part has met three times before; at St.

these are Britain's alma

gramme of purposes and prin- James Palace in London, at the

Palestine: Spiridonovka Palace in Moscow, and at the Luxembourg Palace in Paris. On not one occasion have the representatives of the limited mostly to operations by Big Four been able to agree; and its Palmach" (striking faren) there seems little hope that on the of 1500 Jews, including about main issues they will do any better 300 girls. The Palmach admit- this time, in the even more gilded ted in its clandestine surroundings of the Waldorf broadcasts the dynamiting of Astoria. When Mr. Byrnes sug- eight bridges in Palestine iust June, and its nim apparently gested that the proposed Peace is to prove to the British that Treaties, should go before advisory it could make untenable committees of 21 nations, the military bastion in world felt that at last some pro- not operated with Jewish co gress might be made toward a sent. settlement. But it soon became

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outlook by developing the lawn and neatly arranged flower beds on the site in front of the rail- way. It is true that they weren't fitted with lights to ensure that they could be seen by night as well as by day!

BACK-TO-FRONT

formed the National

Organisation, in Hebrew, Irgun Zvi Leumi.

The Stern Gang When Arab uprisings ended in 1939, and World War !! began soon afterwards, the

This displeased a handful of Irgun adherents, and made way for Abraham Stern to launch the outlaw band that bears his name today.

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second great aim: to preserve

Haganah sabotage now is sians from cutting an ideolo- BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

radio

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Palestine

gical corridor to the sea.

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To maintain enough mone- try and economic controle Protect her trade lines and re- Bources, notably oil.

To mount enough guns to protect such lines as the Suez Canal and various air routes

By Shepard Barclay "The Authority on Authorities"

nations.

League Mistakes

These nations have all the experience and the knowledge of the mistakes that resulted in the falare of the League of Nations. Vam

Altogether the United Na tions today comprise about 1,500,000,000 men, women and children-nearly three-fourths

of all the inhabitants of the earth.

and sea-lanes. Militarily, Pales

to discard a heart, so that he lost tine has been described, infor-

AT ONCE OR LATER

only one other triek, fn hearts, They include men of every Successful defense, by a player thus making his contract plus an colour and race, of every level of cultural and economic de mally, on high levels, as "con-fortunate enough to hold the ace extra trick. huge airport at Lydda venient but not necessary." The of trumps,

velopment, depends entirely. Weat thought it was highly un- They speak hundreds-per- and sometimes, on when he uses that fortunate that he guessed wrong haps thousands of different other strips now being built in big card. In some situations he on which suit la lead after taking languages and dialects. The nests for planes which scour other trump to reduce the de- unfortunate about It, simply bad ber nation-Russia uses nearly the Mediterranean and stand clarer's ruffing power. In others, bridge, West should have let the 200 languages, dialects and ready for action in defence of when the declarer leads trumps, first trump trick go by, saving his scripts.

obvious that Russian obstruc- directed toward alding illegal southern Palestine could be the should lay it down, then lead an-his spade A. There was nothing population of one single mem-

tionist tactics would prove A stumbling block. There seems to be much validity in Walter Lipp

mann's insistent contention that

Other Haganah activities are

migrants both in Palestine and in Europe, where there numerous branches.

Noshe Sneh

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Police say that the leader Transjordan, some strategista ruff before the latter's trumps are the top two trump honors, had a ber of different religions and

term Palestine's airfields, dis-gone. Then there are clude all enemy countries. The timated

circum- five-card sult. In that case, East creeds. Yet all are joined in 70,000 members, ispensable.

stances under which he should could have only one spade. So if the common determination to Paris Peace Conference suffered shert, fat, 38-year-old Noshe

delay its play long enough to let West ducked the first trump, it maintain pence and security, throughout from the fact that it Sneh, member of the Jewish

his partner make a discard which was a virtual ceriainty East would to preserve human rights with was dealing only with those coun- Agency Executive, who "went Protection of the Suez by will signal him what sult to re-have discarded on the second... justice in their own lands tries on the periphery of the underground" when the police land forces, a factor declining turn, Soviet Union, and that the vital] end British Army' occupied the in emphasis because of changes

If West had followed that pro-well as other lands. cedure, East would have put his basic aim of the or question of Germany herself was Jewish Agency and tried to in war tactics, might well

Basic Aim heart 7 on the second spade, as á left unconsidered. There is no arrest him on June 29. He next centre in Palestine when Bri-

The signal to lead a heart: A saif ganisation is commcn action hope of a final settlement in appeared in Paris, attending tish forces evacuate Egypt, best:

the Middle

heart then to East would have for the common good." Europe until this question is de- the Jewish Agency Conference equipped of all

been won by the A, a diamond Snch, native of, Radzim,: Po- Eastern countries to support S. A 74 cided. Mr. Lippmann has scolded fund, has been

This idea is almost as old as would have been returned for a the history of organised gof- Mr. Bymes for this back-to-front etudent, newspaperman, Polish

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ruff as the defenders' third trick, ernment ftscif. It has found ex- merhod of making peace. But Army officer (he was impri- tions to revise their 1936 C. QJ90 5

and the heart I would have depression through centuries Ins feated the contract. surely, this is unfair to Mr. soned by the Russians, escaped alliance with Egypt, have been

tranties, agréements and under- standing between two or more Independent governments.A

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settlement with Germany comes, and finally Palestine), and is cea in Egypt for three years only from Russia. Mr. Ernest now a rabid Zionist politician. Moreover, Transfordan, with Bevin,, Britain's Foreign Secre- Irgun Zval Leumi activities its path to the Red Bea through

(Dealer: South, East-West vul- tary, and Mr. Byrnes would have are centred on sabotage of the the Gulf of Aqaba, is available gladly tackled the problem ear: iety of means. Its latest blow treaty. Transjordan affords South West

British Government by a var to unlimited British forces by nerable.)

North East lier, but they have been prevented

plenty of space for troops, but | 1 61 West 2.8.. Pass from doing so by the refusal of sent, unrest as much as she can. Jacks local facilities to help's's Pass 488AQJE the U.S.S.R. to agree to any dis- Meanwhile, the plight of maintain a modern mechaniser West opened his singleton dis H. None

D.A J875 cussion on the subject. There Eumpe is tragic, and the whole army, she modd, which South won, with the

CJAJ 10:41 ta no prospect of the German world is handicapped to its ef}) Að- a naval base, Palestine A. The spade Q was led and West treaty being dealt with in Newforts to achieve prosperity and to offers only Haife, Inadequate came right in with the A because York. All that the Kremlin seems improve the lot of its peoples. for major naval operations in he wanted to conserve na many ready to permit Mr. Molotov to Almost unbelievable is the is present condition, and less of his trumps as possible for ruf discuss is in what circumstances patience that Mr. Bevin and Mr. strategic, suggest naval anthong His job now was to get Last the question shall be raised at Byrnes have shown in the fate rities than Cypris, Egyptian in the lead, and he decided that

Dealer South East-West vul Rociated Presse ports, or Aden at the tip of the club mult was the best chance. some later date, Russia, unlike of this intransigeance; and it is Arabia. But South won the club with

nerable.) the rest of Europe, is in no hurry, discouraging that, there is as yet Under the currently discuss the K and took out the other If Bouth bids 1-Heart, West Field but seems to believe that it is in no reason to ppose that their ed plan of federation for Pals trumps with the J, and; 10. Three doubles and North. bids: 3-Hearts, Bernard her interests to prolong the pre- patience

tine, Britain would retain diamond tricks then enabled South what should, East do, and why? hereby

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Another example was the con foderation of the 13 Nortir American colonies. And a third mudern example is the British Commonwealth of Nations.Az-

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