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OLD STATESMEN AND

THE NEW

The query must have arisen in the minds of many observers of present-day events whelber the political leaders of the past, had they been alive today, would be more successful in handling inter- national affairs than the statesmen now in charge of national destinies So far as Britain is in Europe. concerned, the veteran Liberal.

| Lord Craigmyle, has given expres- Ision to the view that if the nation had at its head to-day a man of the type of Campbell-Bannerman, whose centenary has just been

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ARAB STRIKE that

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ANY must wonder how It has been possible to carry on a strike on a nationwide scale as the Arabs have done for six months, There appeared a picture of one million people enduring a great martyrdom to right economic wrongs, suffering

of the privations worklessness in the hope of remedying inequalities of living. The picture was completely wrong in conception and design. The Palestine Arab strite has been no strike at all as The Western world understands much a move- ment.

In Palestine the strike has been purely, political, having is roots and 1 purpose in the same super- charred nationalism which rapidly setting Europe by the ears; is methods have been those of the gunmen of Mussolini and Hitler.

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The Palestine Arabs are a poor primitive race, scratching for a living on the surface of the soil with n hook at the end of a long pole drawn by A Camel and a donkey.

For centuries they endured the ruthless overlordship of the Turks, who eared nothing for their sub- jects welfare and allowed their

and to slide Into the slough of desolation,

Always the poverty stricken "fellah," the peasant, has beeri at the mercy of the moneylending Effendi," the well-dressed half- Europeanised "upper class," retu- Inrly swooping down to foreclose on An unpaid mortgage over the bor- rowers' strip of land; or the urban Arab serving the same effendi for week. barely few plastres a enough for a meagre existence.

If the six months' strike had been a planned uprising of the Arab against the iniquity of his -servitude, it would have been understandable and praiseworthy.

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Far from being a movement from below, the strike was fomented from above with a purpose which did not contemplate an improve- ment in the lot of the men who work in town or village,

instil the principles of labour reform among the Arabs.

They have Talled breauze The Arab politt- cal fenders are unin terested 15 the economic welfare of their fellows and have thwarted every effori lo

12. Ingrove

Jewish labour is in control in Palestine, Arab labour is in seridom,

This so-called bas been merely 11 political demonstration without offering any Innovation of modern kind for the beneft of the Arah

Allied racially

Retor has

been

with -it nationalist the

power of religious au- thority and its treasury.

Haj Amin el Husseini

Is the leader of the poll- tical Arabs. He is also Grand Muft of Jeru- salem. head of the Moslem Church ul Palestine, and in that capacity he wields. enormous power, and Influener over his suh- Jects.

More than that, he is the sole controller of

the religious property, the Waqf, allotted to him by the Palestine Government, which he opposes in an economic and violent hostBity.

This property comprises prent Inuds estimated at 25,000 acres, bulidings, and cash contributions.

No one knows the value of this property or its income, whose dis- tribution is in the Mufll's sole dis- cretion,

Moreover, the Waqf includes a large number of officials under the Mufi's complete authority. They are, besides the administrative stats and Anancial beneficiaricà, the Muezzins of the Mosques, the teachers in the schools, and the preachers whose influence in carrying the behests of the Mufti to a highly religious people is enor

blows.

It is a curiosity of Palestine his- It is significant that from the

tory that Haj Amin was appointed to his office by a Jewish High Com- commencement there has been no

missioner, Sir Herbert Samuel, strike organisation of the working "Arabs, no-Labour leader appeared--who, in his zeal for concillation to

to volee the grievances agninst Their masters.

The Jews of Palestine have per- fected a complete Inbour organisa- tion, one of the best in the world. and have attempted repeatedly to

wards the Arabs, reinstated the Mufti after he had been exited for agitating against the Mandate and for his implication in violence.

Another bizarre feature is that the Moslem Turkish Government “

TYRANNY

PHILOSOPHERS must often have

look over the control of the re- ilgious Waqt and secularised it.

Moslem Iran Pershy has done the same, and placed its' Waq! under the administration of the Ministry of Public Instruction.

Because the strike" has had no roots in labour discontents it has been largely a fallure and at best has been less than half- hearted. It has affected only the commercial class, the shops and of warehouses, and the owners motor car transport.

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'Much comment has been made on the curious fact that the rall- ways have continued to ran des- pite terrorist activities to dislocate them. This is because the rail- way workers, 95 per cent. of whom are Arabs, refused to down tools.

The only Arab workmen to come out on the strike call were the Jaffa port workers, whose "strike pay has been a loa: of brend or so a day.

At Halfa, the great new Pales- tine harbour on the Mediterranean. Arab labour has continued at work, and it is important that at

OF TROUSERS

By AN OLD STAGER

fewer and solutions speedier and more effective. It is, of course. the way of veterans to glorify the Indepast at the expense of the present, but speculation of the type in- dulged in by Lord Craigmyle would appear to lead nowhere. If the statesmen of the past are to the be compared with those of present, it is only fair that duc allowance should be made for the immensely changed conditions. The whole scale and tempo of life have altered, and those who seek the guide the wheel of destiny are as often as not broken upon it. As a Home commentator has pointed out, the giants of the past were faced with comparatively clear and simple situations. They displayed great deliberation and THERE IS ONLY ONE,solemnity, and were worshipped as demi-gods, at least by a section of the community. Hero-worship to-day is reserved for those who do things in the worlds of mechanics and sport; the poor politician gets nothing but abuse. The states- men of old had their crises to face, their vital decisions to make, but to-day it is crisis all the time; His in their holidays Majesty's Ministers are pursued by duties on which may depend The the destiny of the world. supermen of the past might cut a sorry figure confronted with urgencies and complexities such as these. At any rate, they would lose much of their reputation for perspicacity, inspiration. and finesse. We must recognise that the colossal kaleidoscope that is the This seemed tolerably conclusive troversy on to a slightly higher and world-politics of to-day makes de- reasoning. Most men had to admit wider plane. Most people regard mands on the nations' leaders for

that, in so far as they wear, turned-i trousers as the hallmark of the male up trousers, they are anachronistic. of the human species. Actually which there is no semblance of

But there is, fortunately for us all, they are as modern as they precedent in all history. By com- invariably another side to every hideous.

grave question.. On top of these at- Iparison the statesmen of the pre-

tacks War era had only kindergarten problems to solve,

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A young Arab leader haranguing his compatriots

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1000 relations continued In- broken despite desperate efforts to destroy them. Arab agricultural workers responded not at all.

On the surface the commercial - strike has succeeded-but only on

the surface. The Arab food mar- ket disappeared from Jerusa- let, but it was only removed to Bittir, the station for the capitul, where it flourished openly..

The vendors were those who plled their trade in Jerusalem before the strike. There was even a food market outside Jerusalem station itself, though on a small scale. In the back streets of the city trade was carried on surreptitiously, food und merchandise being sold from. the merchants' houses.

clown pantaloons were satirised on the French stage very much as our mused upon the fact that it is

comedians have satirised the hygienie the trifles and not the vastly serious

onion, the piquant kipper, and the affairs of life that excite the most

inevitable mother-in-law. But in human Interest Far more people, it editor of that solemn journal, the

the reign of Louls the Sixteenth may be taken for granted, are in Tatlor and Cutter, who annually cen-

pollte form of pantaloon came into trigued by Mr. Baldwin's pipe than sors our Royal Academy portraits fashion in France even with the chic by his policy.

solely from the sartorial standpoint nobility. Trousers did not come to Almost the only outstanding thing and periodically rebukes our front this country, however, until the early remembered

by the majority of, bench statesmen for their careless people who have not read Lord tailoring, pointed out that the tumars of last century. It was that thoroughly odious shob and toady. Morley's "Life" about the great Mr. up could always be stitched across Beati Brummel, who introduced Gladstone is his collar. Even that. to obviate its unhygienle habit of them, ronspicuous personality of classic collecting dust. Moreover, he em- These, carly monstrosities were times. the Emperor Nero, whom phasised the economy of the turn-leg-fight affairs, such as we may moxtern blographers are trying their | up, which enabled fayed trouser legs | still see in the original illustrations best to beautify, in immortal merely to be cheaply and easily repaired." of Charles Dickens's works. Mr. because he played the fiddle.

This elicited a firm protest from #| Pickwick, Mr. Mieuwber, and Mr. So much by way of apology for frugal Scot who once found a lost Pecksniff, in fact all the gallery of devoting some carnest attention to shilling in the turn-up of his pants, Boz's men characters, sported fight the subject of trousers. Some tie and was still lving, on in hope of trousers. Gradually fashion made time ago a medical correspondent some day discovering another, or them more voluminous, and it was started a highly diverting contro- even maybe half crown. But the the great Duke of Wellington whe versy about turned-up trousers. The{ strongest protest against the anti- first bad the notion to keep them doctor alleged that the turn-up style turn-up came from an Oxford Don down by strappling them under the is both sartorially unattractive and with healthy footpath and fieldway boot. hygienically wrong. He at once re strolling habits. He remarked how It is worth noting that, on their ceived the enthusiastic support of great would be the relentitle depri first' Introduction into this country', Į zealous citizens who probably never vation turn-ups were abolished trousers aroused the strongest hos-- turned a hair over the iniquities of and it was no longer possible, after tillty amongst the Anglican clergy, Mussolini nor

Have more than n

n country ramble, to revive the pica- and at our two older universities. pussing thought to the menace of sures of the outing by examining | Whether that hostility was founded rampant Hitlerism.

critically the speelmens of rural on sound aesthetic grounds, or was It was pointed out to him that the flora and fauna collected during the merely surtorial conservation, or

wellc.

is not for turn-up trousers

perbupa marut Indignation, pletely vanished with the introduc- This, of course, knocked right out | quite certain. But trousers triumphed. tion of the tarmac road. The turn-of count the economy argument plus as nearly always happens when a up was a Victorian, innovation to the stitching-up Iden. It was, in my thing is convenient, however repul- save the purments from being solled own personal view, a coup de grace sively ugly, and to-day to speak of by muddy roads that no longer to the untla in this brisk campaign, a lady wearing the trousers is to

connole a state of domestic sex in

against the masculine.

cxcuse

exist.

The Scot's Shilling

com-

Beau Brummel Began It

But I should like to lf! the con-

ure

quality in favour of feminism as

Twin Cylinders

That mankind has cubmitted to trousers when it might have achieved the kit says very little for its aris- We perception or its sense of humani form of pantaloon was dignity and comfort, It is quite on the turned-up trousers worn by the baser order of male arguable that it was the trouser hobli came shouls of vehement protests humanity in Austria so far back as that caused the capitulation of the against doing away with them. The the eighteenth century, and these (Continued on Page 4)

A wide

In Haifa the shop strike has been in progress, but I have seen Arabs doing business at half opened side- doors and at partly opened windows,

As the strike response weak- ened, so there was a resort to terrorism in an effort to secure by violence what the failure of a work stoppage had denied to the politi- cal leaders,

But terrorism in Palestine is no new development. It is the result of a long period of agitation and propaganda. Arms have beer smuggled in systematically three borders, from the sea, from Syria and from Transjordan and. the south.

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On the Transjordan frontier: only one hour's Journey from Jerusalem, there has never been an effective control.

There are no police patrols on the Syrian border, while through the Sinal desert and the south there is free and frequent arms. smuggling.

The rank and file of the terrorist bands are drawn from the peasan- try, the fellaheen." and this may appear a contradiction of the statement that the agricultural worker has not joined the strike.

Actually, however, the peasant terrorist continued at his work in. the fields during the day and took to his gun by night. Moreover, the fellah has been agitated for years by the assiduous repetition of the ску

"The Jews aro coming to kil

you."

The fellah is a simple-minded man, and he has been worked up to a real fear of what he belleves is u real enemy coming to destroy him. Strange as it may seem, the primitive, easy-going persant is the backbone of the Palestine terror.

He has been deluded Into main---- taining anarchy while his more enlightened town brother has re- fused to follow the politicians in bringing economic chaos to this sore tried "Land of Promise.”

-To-day's Thought

YES, we will do almost any- thing for the poor man, anything but get of his back,

-TOLSTOY.