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I paid a visit not long ago to the city of Nablus in Palestine. In Nablus live the Samaritans, the purest of all races under the sun. The Samaritans are purer than anyone the snow-white Herr Goebbels could possibly present to his imagination; even in a snow-storm on the top of the Drachenfels.

The Samaritans are an interesting people to study at a time when

PUREST

of all RACES

whole By LOUIS GOLDING

lle were suspended over mo, and clustors of red shoes hung from cross-beams like large pods of popper.

There was such an air of age about the dusky courtyards that they seemed older than Nablus' (which is # mero parvonu name) and to be the relics of the very Shechem of the Bible, which stood in this place, and perhaps still stands in a lintel here, a threshold there, though catastrophes frequent and vio- lent have sought to expunge it from human record.

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It was in so late a day as Ves- pasian's that, in the place, of Shechem, the city of Neapolis.

country has gone mad about individual brings in mate sheep at Passover on the, sum- (by the Arabs muted into

in

race,

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the shibboleth called race- from another people, a fresh mit of Gerizim.

Nablus) wna to be set up. The If the Gentile desire to pre- part of the town where the $3.00 per hour, running rate, purity. For they have, in- vitality, a fresh fermentation,

waiting rato. deed, achieved the impos- is Introduced, without which sent his mind with the Ideal Samaritans still live seemed

the veins harden, the brain Jew, it is precisely a Samaritan older than Troy itself. sible; they are racially pure, numbs.

he builds up, for he gives up But the sands are nearly, out. Thoro so far as the words have any

all patience with the task of very nearly, run meaning at all. That is to say.

Race is primarily a psycholo-striking an average among the are not many grains left to run at a certain recognisable epoch gical matter, not a biological Jews he has met with curved hour-glass.

one. The Samaritans have in- and snub nosea, golden and They are sheils, as I have their history, after certain terbred with each other since black hair, lank and frizzy hair, said, like peaches and apples disparate elements had been the ninth century, but in their lips thin as razors and thick as that are all enten up below an welded together, they achieved physical aspect they ront every thumbs.

Impeccable skin. a sort of coherence, a sort of axiom of racial hygiene and

The Samaritans are precisely The High Priest pointed out group-loyalty, which is called eugenics.

They should have

been the people the Jews would have his grandson to me, or surely it wizened and etiolatod, cretinous, been had history passed them was his great-grandson, and in From this moment the race squint-eyed, rachitic. But they by. The Jews, too, by this time the voice of that small child I' would not have numbered two heard the death-knell of the idea is kept alive not by rigid are not.

Their children bellow lustily hundreds souls And all the wit of race that has keen kept itself inbreeding, which, so far from

as bullfrogs.

Heine, the glamour of Disraeli, too pure. keeping the race-idea alive,

The women hold themselves the vision of Einstein, would The child was reading aloud merely petrifies it; is kept alive like trees, and some of them have been bats nesting in the from the Pentateuch. He read by this loyalty I have spoken of, are distressingly handsome. beard of another Isaac, petty with the precise automatism of and fertilised from generation

I remember, one of them in rival to Isaac, High Priest of a doll.

as magnificent and as I was reminded of the gramo- particular, a niece of Isaac, the Nablus, to generation by the infusion of High Priest, who had defiantly empty as he, squatting over a phone I had been listening to blue eyes, overshadowed by long narghile in some dungeon-like half an hour ago in an Arab That is what is wrong with pitch-black lashes, set in a face courtyard under the ramparts cafe, for there was just such a of healthy peach-bloom. She of Jerusalem, as the Samaritan suggestion of husky mechanism MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1936. the Samaritans, and has been might have been the daughter Isaac squats over his narghile in the child's voice. At last the

for two thousand years. They of a hunting squire.

In the cooped ghetto of Nablus. mechanism is worn out.

The

The child neemed. In some But it was Isaac himself the are dead, or only just not dead.

Samaritans are, I say, RESURGENT

cadaverous manner, are only a couple of High Priest, who incarnated the the purest race in the world and curious GERMANY

hundred of them left in their eugenistic paradox. He was as have been so for nearly three more ancient than his grand- uncles and his great-grand- magnificent as any patriarch out millenia.

father. German military re-occupa- Palestinian fastness and they of Michelangelo. I could not

I was anxious to see what sort Excepting that he had no tion of the Rhineland has creat-will all be gone in a generation conceive Moses himself having a of people they were who had beard, he was a waxen replica

more awful presence.

a shell, the once been the chief rivals of the of them, with his long skirts Yet he is only

The

Hongkong Telegraph. fresh blood.

ed an entirely new situation in Europe, the full implications of which it is not at the moment

There

or two.

No people can preserve itself. as the Samaritans prove, merely by hermetically sealing up its blood.

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the black

merest hollow skin of majesty. Jews and what had become and thick lips and

of them, having remained snake-like plaits, tied up against

Se are they all.

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They are descendants, on the in Canuan all these years, in the crown of his head. So is possible to predict. Public re-

one hand, of the colonisis sent stend of making pilgrimages, the image of the beardless older than any action outside Germany will probably be that the circum-

It is clear that in the majority down from Assyria in the ninth forced and voluntary, between Buddha

century B.C. to take the place Vladivostok and Cadiz, Arch- patriarch bearded like a pine

forest. of cases, the stances hardly called for such a

Individuals who of the Israelites carried away angel and Otaheite.

So I made my way into the demonstration that the ends constitute a given people will thither; and, on the other, of

town of Nablus, So the tiny voice droned on, sought might have been attain-fall in love with each other and the defaulting Jews who from venerable

But the Samaritan ed by other and less contentious marry each other. The mere time to time, in subsequent where all that is left of them as the tiny dead Samaritan race

I passed under low droner on. and through sleepy Doom hung heavily in the air methods. There is, of course, accidents of physical contiguity Samaritan history, came down live on.

from Jerusalem to nothing new in the German at-will see to that. But when an their lot with those persistent bazaars, where festoons of gar- that day at Nablus.

tans remitted the sacrifice of malcontents.

titude that she no longer regards herself as being subject to the

throw in arches

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A LOOK AT THE FUTURE

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

environment,

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A list of beta is submitted to the arnual meeting, members record an afirmative or negative answer to each proposition, and those who find that their forecast is wrong at the following meeting are called upon to

pay up.

provisions of the Versailles Europe-one which, to use the been isolated, in a quite chemi- Treaty, which she considers words of Hitler, would set the cal seclusion; for neither Jews THE Wagering Club of Edin- in those days, and the how i havent.

congenial provided were forced upon her against

European problem above the nor Moslems have permitted

burgh, which cancelled its Groups of frequenters of those places her will. It is true, as Herr

themselves or been permitted, to annual meeting in view of the banded themselves together and

their blood Hitler said in his Reichstag passions of pettiness and jeal-mix

with theirs, speech, that Britain, with a fullousy. Had the German gesture much less any non-Semitic in death of the King, has met formed clubs, and found enjoyment by since 1828 on the last Monday meeting in each other's company.

Their regular gatherings permitted. sense of realities, has herself been taken no further than that habitants of the country.................................

in January, with the exception relaxation and funketing on mora or They have clung to the barren conceded the need of revision of at this stage, no nation anxious

summit of Mount Gerizim, of 1901, when the meeting was tese unconventional lines. the Treaty, witness the conclu-for the preservation of peace where the rival temple to Jeru- abandoned, Queen Victoria hat-

The regulations of the clubmited was once set up, with ing died on January 22. Founded

its membership to 30. sion of the recent inval agree- could afford to ignore it. But in salem

The presca or ment with Germany. It can, in view of the fact, remarked by more tenacity than the Jews to in January 1775, it was one of chairman was changed at each meet- the notable social clubs that ing. Each member made a bet for the deed, be said that all the signa- Mr.. Neville Chamberlain

on Zion.

The utmost privilege of the flourished in Edinburgh, and ensuing year, and these were scaled up until the following year. The tories of the Peace Treaty have Friday, that the international!

Jews has been during many now, 160 years later, It shows sith rule provided that the bets laid has latterly been!

shall not exceed the value of one long since been conscious of situation

centuries to wail over the cran-no sign of old age. the desirability of h fresh under- steadily deteriorating, doubts nies in, any extorior wall, while Sir Walter Scott, in "Guy Man-bottle of wine or half a mutchicin of standing being reached to cover must inevitably anise regarding no man can say whether there nering," describes the good-fellowship punch for each person wagering," the

and high links which characterised grent object "being to keep com- no man can say whether there the social clubs of the period. Life acquaintance and promote mirth and those parts of the treaty to the wisdom of further

good fellowship." The bet has since which Germany has taken ex-plicating the position by an was a time when the Samari-l in some of its aspects was strenuous

been fixed at one shilling. At the annual meeting the bets of the pre- ception. There need, therefore, overt act such as re-occupation

ceding year are read out and in- be no surprise at thede of the Rhineland, an act which

stantly paid."

at nunciation of the Peace Pact. is scarcely likely to improve The same conditions, however, Franco-German relations. There scarcely apply to the Locarno will be a natural disposition to agreement, to which Germany of ask why such a step should be her own free will became a taken at this juncture, The party. The Hitler argument is possibility cannot be overlooked that the Franco-Soviet Pact is a! that there may be more behind violation of the Locarno under- this move than a further de- standing; that is a matter upon monstration of the feelings of a which opinions may be sharply resurgent Germany-that it may divided, in which connection, it be linked in some way with. the is difficult to escape the thought move for peace between Italy | that the Nazi Government, hat- and Ethiopia. Until the posi- ing Communism in all its forms, tion In this regard is more clear- may well have read into the ly clarified, it would be unwise Franco-Soviet Treaty implica to jump to hasty conclusions. tions not warranted by the But whatever the facts may be, facts. An impartial analysis of Europe has been brought down, the seven points put forward by to realities by the startlingį Hitler leaves the impression that developments now recorded: there is much in them, especially There may be ground for critic-1 in their positive aspects, suitable isni of the methods which Ger-¡ for submission to a conference many has chosen, but it would having as its aim the composing be foolish, to overlook the of the troubled European situa- possible value of the positive tion. Advanced as conditions side of the points, which she has under which Germany would be advanced. For the sake of prepared to re-enter the League European concord, it is to bo of Nations, and thus take her hoped that the other Powera rightful place in world affaire, concerned will face up to the they would be worthy of the new developments in a spirit of most serious consideration. As willingness to extract the maxi- such, they could be regarded as mum benefits from the situation, a dofinite contribution towards and that nothing may occur to the reaching of a lasting under-causo any aggravation of an standing between the nations of I already tense position.

PARKVIEW ARMS

worst of it is, he has a six-month's lease on that flat."

The questions on which the beta aro mada are varied. At the meeting on 27th

Jamiary 1781 nine propositions wero listed, These included the following That the island of Ceylon shall be taken from the Dutch by the Dritish Forces, and that accounts to- that effect shall be received before the next meeting: That Lord George Gordon shall not be acquitted upon his trial at London: That Miss Marion or Monie Selkrig shall be married before the 1st of January 1782

In 1780 we have That Mr. Pitt shall bo. Prime Minister of Great Britain before next meeting. In 1800 -That Buonaparte shall be alive at next meeting. In 1811-That Great Britain and America shall be at de.... clared, war before next meeting. In 1818 That the Scottish Crown shall not bo found In the Investigation about to bo proceeded with respecting the ancient Regalia of Scotland. In 1830-That the Duke of Wellington shall be Premier of the Administration at next meeting. In 1840 Sholi Queen Victorin be married before the next meeting of the Club? In 1842 Will Her Majesty have a son betwixt

now

and next meeting of the Club? An analysis of the correct answers- to the questions of which the forego- ing are specimens shows that the negative prodominater)". As a test of conjectural proficiency readers might write out a list of nine propositions and add their answer, "Yea" or "No." „They will find on examining it in January 1087 that they are no more successful as propheta than, are the members of the Wagering Club!

Netherbow,