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All that is needed, the moderates say, is a device to save the faces of their leaders who asked for more

Palestine Last of three articles

By CARTER- DAVIDSON

Solutions to the problem, numbering dozens in the past 25 years,--boil down roughly to whether this much- disputed land ahall be Jewish, Arab, neither or both.

Right now it's the political fashior to discuss the last of these.

The committee

recommended: That Jew shall not dominate Arab and Arab shall not dominate Jew in Palestine,

Tizat

faiths.

Palestine

shall be

the

Jewish

In its comment on the re-

"confidential"

memorandum calling, for a Syrian Confedera tion of Syria, Lebanon, Pales- tine, and Transjordan Aruba, with "semi-autonomy for the Jews of Palestine."

This plan pledged the Jews "the right to their own rural and urban district administra tion, including schools, health Institutes, and police, subject to the general supervision of the Syrian Stale."

Recently, those "Aruh leaders who knew of it Palestine

memo.

Great Britain, the mandatory power whose political, economie, and military future in the Mid-neither a Jewish State nor an

Arab State, dle East may hang in the 'balan-

That the form of government The growing restiveness of the ce, has enlisted America as its Junior ranks of the Civil Service golical handmaiden'

ultimately to be and ceme shall, under

established international and bitterly opposed it, have is only partially' revealed by the Up with a scheme to federate

rentembered Nuri" Pasha's recent correspondence bearing on Palestine and give parts of it guarantees, fully protect and

preaurve the interests in to Arabs, parts to Jews, and various aspects of their can keep two parts aloof. One of Holy Land of Christendom and ditions of employment. Discontent the separate parts would be of the Moslem and is not, of course, confined to the the Negev, or southern desert, most junior grades. The new which would be deferred for a Commissioner of Police is taking later decision according

to over a force which is so divided developments, and the other sons, that its efficiency is almostĮternational mandate in the holy certainly. impaired. In other places. branches of Government service,tion the pros and cons are now Around the plan of feders while the degree of dissatisfaction raging in this troubled land. is not perhaps comparable, it is The arguments, loud and bitter, nevertheless existent. In all cases, are mostly con, but the senti- salary scales in relation to pre mente, say most

Palestinians who are not professional politi. cians, are mostly pro.

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commendations -

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commendations, "the committee added: "Because it is a holy lund it is not, and can never become, land which

any race or religion can justly claim its very own."

Soma have wondered alond""

whether recently

there is significance to the fact that while British and American political technicians were draft- ing the federation scheme a few weeks ago, London's notabla. visitors include Nuri Pasha along with Prince Regent Ab dullilah and the young King. Felsel 11, of Irak.

own

Zionist opposition to the federation of Palestine hinges on the plan's failure to put the Jews" in control of their immigration. Locking back to displaced peretas camps, Jews in Palestine want the right to bring their brother Jews to Zien to alleviate their Buffering and to bulwark the Zionist political and economic stake in Palestine.

The plan of federation pro- nsulgated by British and Ameri- can technicians has met with a fury of opposition because

far less than the demands of both Arabs and Jews. But, in the opinion of moderate-Europe's and and majority-clements of both factions, all it lacks is some device for saving the faces of those who asked for more

Federation, as now discussed, hay two precedents in recent Palestine history.

All of them privately, most of them publicly, seem to regard the other three solutions, that Palestine be Jewish, be Arab, or be neither, as per- manently in the realm of lest

causes.

*

The first was in 1937, shortly Spokesmen, however, continue after the outbreak of the Arab to plump for their causes. The uprising against Jewish immi- Irgun Zvai Leumi, a nationalgration and land purchases.

State."

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New Method Of Smashing The Atom

Moscow, Nov. 28. Two highly-important dis- coveries were announced in the

USSR yesterday: Professor P. I. Lukirsky's new methid of atom and the smashing the probing by electricity of the

earth's surface to a depth of 19.2 miles.

No details of Lukirsky's diag coveries were given, but Profes... Bor S. I. Vavilov, President of.. the Soviet, Academy of Sciences... in aunouncing the names of andidates to give newly-created chens in theoretical and experi-i

mental physics said that

Lakirsky had found a “new, kind.::: And out in Palestine's plains of disintergration of atonile::

Arabs oppose federation in a has been known for some time

few words. "Palestine. even Arab that a committee has been sitting,

Jewish-owned, lands, is discussing eraoluments, gradings,

territory, and must forever so and allowances in all departments,

remain the theme of it. but beyond one or two special re-military organisation engaging when British Colonial Secretary both sides admit they are pray "Federation probably is the

efficiency tests in sabotage of the Government Malcolm MacDonald sent the ink in their Moslem, Jewish, for stenographers etc.-nothing by force, still uses as its sym- Royal Commission to Palestine, or Christian prayers these days way of the least injustice." concrete has emerged as a result bol on printed leaflets. a map where were "two nations war that federation, or some em and hillsides, Palestinians are nucleus." President Vavilov of the deliberations. In the mean of Palestine and Transjordan, ring in the bosom of a single blancs of it, will prevail. time, the Government has lost, and, over it, a rifle held in a

One. Jewish intellectual put it livesting, and political reac went no further into the ques- is the first tiens are at low ebb. One Jew- tion than this one sentence, but by resignation, some the best clutched fist

this "This Clerical Service, who have readi

river, of blood that is flowing yard, said: "The plan will give experimenter who knows how to by found mare profitable posts in

deeper and faster in Palestine. voice in our own affairs nuage commercial life. Even more seri-

This may not be the final which we have not had for 2000 means of 11 1

swer, but it surely is a step years. We should not think of ous is the gradual depletion of

being a State until e have (By EDDY GILMORE) Mac- towards it.

practised guiding ourselves."

In a nearby wheatfield, An Arab fellaheen (present) gum- med it up in

a word of his ancient tongue:

"Maleesch, what does it mat-

Hong Kong to San Francisco of its employees in the Junior "rk Kacit (and thus Words The commission, headed by definito, hope for a dam in the ish worker, busy in his vine- he called Lukirsky a skilled

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Arab League and in the world of nations as an Arab nation. But no authority doubts that

mapped, a scheme of partition ing Palestine into Jewish and

to give Palestine to either the Donald sent Sir John Woodhead

Araba or Jews, relegating the other to the role of an iuter- national minority, would stain the Holy Land so copiously with blood it would soon sprout the seeds of another war.

hospitals. In this department, the number of resignations has be come alarming, and in the ab- sence of measures to induce nurses to stay and to attract new recruits, some of the hospitals may soon find themselves hard put to it to carry on. Already in several, the nurses find themselves not only badly underpaid, but situation that can only end in breakdown if relief is not soon forthcoming. It is hopeless to ex- The almost unanimous op- pect the normal intake of recruits position was that the plan was to the profession under existing little, more than a continuation conditions of service. In fact, it of the status quo-a status all

•

Arab States halting the bloodflow.

The following year and his partition commission to No Arab leader would go so see whether the Peel scheme far; but one business executive would work. It wouldn't, said admittedly paraphrasing a re-

Woodhead the

Commission cent address by Zionist leader which promptly recommended Dr. Chaim Weizmaun, said:"ter?". three other plans on similar lines, one of which it claimed would solve the problems.

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Five years later, in 1943. Nuri Asaid Pasha; an "elder, statesman" of the Arab world,

Fifteen Thousand D.S.O.'s.

quickly the main

theoretical features of new ap- pearances and is the teacher of. many Soviet physicists-specia lists on electrons and the vacuum,"

It 1913 2 team of geo- physicista from Leningrad University who cicctrically probed the earth's surface, to the greatest depth known in history. The feat was conducts p el in the vicinity of Leningrad." The announcement said that this, exploration of the little

contributo surface would known areas of the world's sub materially to man's knowledge. of the minerals hidden in the carth's vast depths.

last appearance on a battlefield specially recommended for dis "The Thin Red Line" made its, patches and who have also been and Irak's warrior. hero and on 30th December, 1885, at Gin- tinguished services under fire or

equivalent, taj topmost politician, issued a nis, a Sudanese vilinge where under conditions

forez actual combat with the enemy, combined Anglo-Egyptian defeated the Dervishes,

In 1910, 0

Royal Warrant was Professor R. N. Yanovsky, of that a Bar the Leuingrad University, wlio

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By Shepard Barclay

"The Authority on Authorities”

VULNERABILITY

DECIDES

The

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Royal Berkshires, the issued laying down Queen's Own Royal Weet Kents would be granted ta any officer and the Green Howards were who having already been award- conducted the experiments sald dressed in the traditional scarleted the D.S.O. performs another that "science has no record of kerge, though the other units par act of gallantry for which he such a depth being reached by ticipating word the new khakt would normally have received the electric soundings before.

"Until now, the earth's sur distinction. This is indicated by

a small silver face. has been studied only to a By modern standards, Ginnis the wearing of was a minor cogagement. British repetic" on the ribbon. In bath depth of three to five kilome troops accupied a ridge south of World War, a number of officers tres. We know of only one in measly score of 300 points, the village, which was strongly have received the D.S.D. four stance when French, scientists, Even if the opponents had been held, at first light, and the enemy times over. vulnerable, that two-trick set made vigorous attempts to dis- 500 points, or less than the would have been worth only

value of a vulnerable game.

fed to justify his double on In the post-mortem, East

(By

BAS Special Correspondent)

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Teached a depth of 12 kilomeë..." tres," he said gai

In Action Originally the D.3.0.Scould be "The greater the earth's won for an net of great military, crust is probed, the better can merit not necessarily performed we judge the minerals it cun- in the presence of the enemy wins."

could even be obtained in time

But since 1931, it

that

The announcement said

to retain as many nurses as it has done. Those who have, left to en- ter into private employment are earning three and four times the salary Medical Department of fers, and obviously Government must move itself to meet this competition. Official reluctance to attributed to fears of increasing vary its salary scales is generally

the momentum of the inflationary spiral. It is not today a notably balance on many a hand, with Vulnerability" swinga the sound argument. The worst of the damage has already been done. bear in mind the difference in fine bidders on the job. They Few private enterprises remain magnitude between the scores that have not been compelled to made cn. a game for one side the basis that his own hand was lodge them. They met with no been stip abandon, for practical purposes, is against defeating a doubled very bad in general high-card o'clock the same

and by ten been stipulated that it can only the idea of deep probing with the morning they be awarded for service in action aid of electricity, was advanced ment's example in linking wage naturally try to Releet the one into the suit which was his own

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The announcement' pointed out cognisable standards survived side that with the use of electricity,

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and the Japanese

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three-trick set of not-vulnerable himself, he could feel virtually on for acts of callantry in this,

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the Royal 10 14 of these have now | vealed that the names of 20 can

NAVY the distinction,

didates among them putstanding, specialists on alomie energy and

five, a double would have benten worn its red ribbon.edged with Distinguished Service Order cosmic rays, had been submitted

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of El Alamein and Vi for the vacancies. Alexander World War II, during which the count polley in regard to the conferring "donty earned it as of distinctions, was stricter than the Raval Warwickshire Regimens to Wilson Camera in proving the in the past, saw the award of on 18th October, 1914 in Francu existence of cosmic raya. some 2,000 D.S.0.x and another during the attack on, Meteren in Vavilov said that Skobeltan 300 Bars to Army Officers, EA. the pres-Armentieres battle. His had dissivered the mission of Offers, from 3rd, September, eltation redds For conspicu positive electrons by . radio- 1949 to 31st. December 1946, reous reliantry when he turned the active substance. Affirma ceived 1,078 1.8.0's and 92 Bars, enemy out of their tranches with "This discovery," said Vavilov, while Royal Javy, Royal Marine the. and Dominion Naval Officers-re-1, sou net-lie was svercly "c›mupandi. the centre of atten- ceived 008 D.5.0 and 128 Bark Somme on 20th October 1918; he 110 ot. scientists up to the pre during the same period.

was then a captain in the Irish schte which was created Guards His citation states: Skobeltayn, aid Vavilov, had

"Alex" wan

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The Victoria,anks: Im-" "He was thuise and boul of the educated a big school.of-specialisi

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mediately after the Order of the attack and throughout the day he on the atomie kernel and cosmic British Empire. Its badge in a led forward not only his own men rays, and is the author “of one of gold, crose, ・ enamelled white, but men of all seriments. Ubf the best monographs on coanle edged with gold, bering an ons held the trenches gained in spite-rays.” side the Imperial Crown in gold of heavy machine-gun fire."

Also advanced as 'a candidate, Foreign officers are also eligibir was Professor Lakiraky, who Ab enamelled red background, and to be honorary members of the the past 25 year, has publish reverso the Royal Fegher D.3.0 for service, in action with

the

is less difficult to foresee a steady. He and his partnerenartsCQ falling off in the numbers coming take one trick each in spades, managed to

(Dealer: South, Nefther side forward of the right type of mun diamonds and clubs and East vulnerable) and woman needed in Goyern himself got three tricks with Alter West leads the heart win similar wreath and back- British Forces, and their Pliat, in many facts on fundamental ment, service in the absence of in- his hearts, But, that made to the whe ducements parallelling those of total of only six and set the declarer make fered by private enterprise,- | Contract just two guides forssan ike to acorn 1-1

ground. It li awarded to, officers headed by two Egyptian Officera, vestigations

of the sea, lands and air forces who showed corpicuous gallan polarising X-rays who have been mentioned in destry at Ginnin

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