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A few weeks ago the British Government, responsible Au thority under Mandate of the League of Nations, announced the quota of Jewish labour im- migrants authorised to enter Palestine during the following four months.
Under this "labour schedule" 620 Jews all told can receive "certificates" permitting them to settle in the Jewish National Home. Of this num- ber 400 are allocated to Jewish re- fugees from Nazi Germany,
For the next Ave months, therefore, this doors of Palestine are closed by formal decree of the British Govern- ment to all but 220 of the remainder of World Jewry.
ancestors.
There are scaltered throughout the world some 10 million Jews
whose liturgy for 20 centuries since
the Romans drove them from the
Palestine has contained prayer and hope for "next year in Jerusalem."
If only quarter of their number. wished to convert that prayer into reality, the last Jew would, at the
rate ordained by thila British decree, hope to enter the Promised Land in 1.750 years from now.
F
OR forty years Hebrews, driven
the from the Egyptian bondage by Pharaoh, wandered through the desert; to condemn the Jews to-day to a further 1,760 years of exilo 1s an iniquity undreamt by Hitler'a Egyptian predecessor. The Palestine Government Itself ·
Experts have estimated that reserves 150 certificates, for emer- Palestine can absorb at least gency Immigration, mainly
non- 3,000,000 Jews, and Jewish authorl- Jewish.
ties are prepared to settle them at a minimum rate of 50,000 annually. In relation to the position of the Jewish people in Europe alone, the British Government's polley, if continued indefinitely would be a sentence of death to millions of Jews,
D
URING the past 10 years roughly 30,000
Jews have settled in Palestine annually. In 1935, 02,000 en- tered the country, whule inat year, under conditions of riot and ter rorism, 30,000 Jews wern absorbed. The Jewish Agency, mindful of new factors, reduced. Its demands to 7.500 immigrants who could be absorbed in the Palestine labour noxt four market during the months; the Government's answer is 400 German and 220 other Jews.
No act more cynical could be committed, no blow more callous
The case of Jewry in Nazi Ger- many is so well known as now to be accepted with complacency, if with indifference, by the not world.
Half a million Jews have, by the Nuremberg Laws, been legally sen- tenced to outlawry, deprived of State and citizenship rights. They live under the iron ruthlessness of Hitlerism. under
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Lints In Germany. The unino sorry tale can he repeated in Rumania, Hungary and other lands where Hitler's Fusclat disciples, imbued with the same principles of race hatred, and armed with the: weapons of murder, lle in wait for and terrorise the Jewish minorities.
Altogether some five million Jews in Europu lle crushed humillated, attacked nod doomed to slow extinction- unless they en escape
Whither can they flee? The gates of every country · have been barred and bolted for years agulist them bý Immigration restriction laws. The dictatorships oppress them. the free countries are closed through economic necessity.
One country alone promised a hope of escape, the country to which Jews have been bound for centuries by unbroken historia and religious nasocia» tlon, the country to which they have censelessly hoped to return, This. country too, Jewish Palestine, has now been all but closed by an Allens Act directed arabist the Jowa
Jewish pioneer land-workers look out over the new country
they are making.
tyranny. barred from normal trade and profession, barred from recreation ground and entertain- ment place, their children barred from the schools and their youth from the colleges. 500,000 people have been hounded into a Ghetto, where they are hardly permitted to live and which they are unable to leave.
Lesa known, hardly known at all, is the plight of the Jews of Poland. Here, three million men, women and children are, at this moment, Iving under political disability and suffering an economic slavery at least as terrible as the fate that has befallen the Jews of Germany. Rabid racial intolerance, curtall- ment of political rights, economic restrictions, daily attacks and the threat of large-scale pogromu, have reduced the great Jewish community to despair and the fear of plow extermination.
One of Poland's leading states- men recently declared that the only solution of the Polish-Jewish problem is that one mililon Jewa must leave the country.
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SIDE-LINE to the well- nigh unbelievable misery -of the German and Polish Jews is the position in Silesia, where the Jewish minority is" protected" by a treaty between Germany and Poland.
Ten thousand..... Jews... await.. terror-stricken, the advent of the Nazis, who have openly declared that they will visit upon these in- nocent people the full remorseless fury of the Aryan Laws that has overwhelmed Hitler's Jewish vic-
The Strain of Office Work
This injustico is inexcusable in face- of Britain's obligations sanctioned by the world's States and imposed as a trust by the League of Nations.
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WENTY years ago the British Government.
issued the Balfour De- claration to facilitate the estab- lishment in Palestine of a National Home for Jewish people. That declaration was solemnly accepted. by the League, which conferred on. Britain a Mandato to carry it out.
Every British Government has en- dorsed and adopted both Declaration and Mandate.
In 1931, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, on ochalf of the Labour Government, stated that the Government “recog- nises that the undertaking in the Mandate is an undertaking to the Jewish people.'
Before that, in 1922, Mr. Church!}} na Colonial Secretary declared that the Jews were in Palestine 'on right and not on sufferance."
By virtue of the British promise, by virtue of the international obligation of the Mandate, by virtue of the re peated endorsements of successive British Governments, the Jewish prople undertook the enormous tank of rebuilding their National Home in Palestino.
In 1920 they found an arid,' poverty- africken, materia-ridden land, a dere- liet waste despoiled by centuries of Turkish miɛrule and negicet
Bince 1920, 350,000 Jews have gone to trades- Palestine-students, artisans, men, scholars and professional men, who have entered the country in the teeth of incessant Government re- Birictions.
N face of incredible hardship, they have bulit Aflourishing agricultural sottlements, clearing the malarial. swamps at the cost of hundreds of Hvea.
They have bullt great modern towns, prosperous Industrial enter. prises, hospitals, schools, and a Uni- veralty in Jerusalem.
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They have brought water to parched countryside and electricity to n dark desert. They brought pros perity where there an impoverish- ment.
At the outbreak of Inst year's Arab terrorism, tho one country which showed a Government Treasury sur plus was Palestine,
partments concerned. This is a wise precaution, for advance the many issues involved muy result in measures to prevent any marked recession in industrial activity.: Actually, Britain's economic position has immensely im- proved during the past four years, there being a rapid and almost unbroken increase in national income. Indeed, during the past three years the rate of growth has been unprecedented.
JOHNSTONE was on the carpet this National income during that ume all right. Most of them one of our directors. He insists that Nervous Wrecks
an example be made of the person
Most days the office windows were period increased by no less a had noted his increasing number of responsible. We have since discover-
silp-ups and, being decent fellows, ed several smaller but no less dis-opened to all the hell of main-road traffic. Buses, trams, cars an in- Bum than
£942 millions-a had covered him up as much as possi- concerting flaws in the handling of cessant clang, squeal, oar-all the
theble, but Gregson had caught him your work."
doy long. Often a backare would figure which is made all
bending at inst on n serious matter. And so Johnstone dropped out of have him on the edge of a scream. more impressive when we re-Now he was in the manager's room things, and soon after they took him/He had been a naturally healthy sort of person when he entered the office whole and the ofce didn't Üke
pression. to think off to hospital to be treated as a nerve at Orst, keen on his job, anxious to succeed. Now he was an object to to what would be the result of this pain-case.
scrap-heap ful interview-it they raked up his
be pitled-cast on the record over the last few months. Noise Nuisance
twenty years before his time.
Some big employers have tackled the problem of avoidable noise, and have been rewarded by beller work,
That is an example of what is hop pening up and down the land to-day Nerves, nerves, nerves! Doctors say
Jewish immigration and enterprise have mised the standard of Ufo of the Arabs formerly impoverished by feudal landowners and town task- master Every inch of Jewish land Ins had to be paid for-dearly.
To this miracle of achievement nave been brought millions of money sub- scribed by the pennies of the poorest Jews as well the pounds of the rich, backed by incalculable real, and im measurable determination to create a new national existence, with freedom tram perennial Intolerance and, op-
The Jews have created more than this. Always friendly to Britain. they have crented an invaluabio British as BCL in the Near East, in face of Fascist ambitions and foreign engroachments in the Mediterranean.
H
AIFA, the greatest oll port in the British Em→ pire, the great aliports
of Gaza and Lydda have inade Palestine a vital link in British communications. Only Jewish enterprise has
mado these possible; only by Jewish friend- ship can they be mado secure.
Britain rewards the Jews with a pledge unfulfilled, an international ob Ilgation violated.
If the excuse for the closed door b Arab unrest, it is a concession to ter- rorism and violence.
member that in the twenty-five years from 1866 1890 the increase, expressed in present-day prices, was no more Johnstone was taking it bravely, than £960 millions. The con-but he quaked a little when the boss clusion has recently been drawn Opened up. "Well, Johnstone, I am
sorry to have to bring you here to- the nation is becoming a collection of more contented staff, and less time nervous wrecks, and they lay the lost through illness. But these cases by an economist that there is any on such a matter as this. We blame on modern civilisation-on the are only isolated attempts to combat] the trouble. Thousands of offices and no intrinsic reason why British used to think you had the makings of constant high-speed wear and tear of similar places which require quiet-
our sirvival-of-the-fittest jungle of t
ness to concentrate on their business industry should not be able to a really good man, but I am afraid,
business.
are giving their employees all the produce an output distinctly your work has deteriorated lately.
For much of this stupid waste of opportunities to make mistakes. You made rather a costly mistake man-power employers are to blame.
There is no need to go to great ex- greater that at present. But
over the Smithley Corporation ac- Not because they expect their staffs
super-efficient, but because pense to rectify matters. A little this may be accompanied by a count, and as you know, the head is they don't give them a fair chance to commonsense and an understanding rise in the prices of manufac-
be. What caused Johnstone's lapse? of human frailties can work wonders, The office called it nerves and left it The boss who works in a quiet, car- appreciate tured goods. So far as the cur-danger is that the decline in at that. They had not reached John-peted private office cannot
If he makes no attempt to discover| rent year is concerned, this investment may drag down com-stone's breaking point yet, but every the mental struggles of his employees,
one of them was well started towards
the true conditions under which they Increase in production is not sumption and result in a seriousfit.
work. Let him spend more of his Johnstone could have told them time in the general office-bring in expected to involve more than a alump. The Government, of
about it, but he was sensitive that his work sometimes and share the four per cent. increase in the course, will have it in its power way. It would probably sound silly,
plitude he will be even more affect- the way he would explain it First come condilluns. After his own quiet number of industrial workers to make plans for public works of all, that door-banging nuisance ined by the movements and noises employed. This would mean of various kinds and to take the outer office. It preyed on his which interrupt work than the staff
mind so much that he could not con-themselves. that in the fourth quarter of other measures to stimulate in-centrate on figures. He was always
keyed up waiting for the next bang A quiet and tactful word here and this year there should be about vestment and consumption. This and was always caught napping, so there may discover why Jones' doc- 450,000 more workers in employ-is the matter to which it is now that his heart gave a flutter each motor has ordered him a few weeks' rest,
by happened. Day
day it or why Miss Brown sometimes has to ment than in the fourth quarter addressing itself, and it is at went on, wearing down his resistance. ask the afternoon off.
He could have complained, but no-
Employers-why do you leave your of last year. The number of any rate reassuring to feel that body else seemed to notice it, so he ordinary thoughtfulness for the feel-
said nothing but worried a lot. employed may in the coming there is no intention of waiting|
ings of others at home? Bring them Then there was Miss Fareham; she into the offico to-morrow. If you worse. You can eliminate avoidable autumn drop to below the until a stump arrives before de-was a nice little woman, he liked her, want the utmost return for the wages noise without bankrupting the shero- you must investigate 1,250,000 figure. Then it may clding on some definite line of but that typewriter of hers tapped his you pay, give your employees a chance holders, but
brain to a numbness that left him to prove that it can be done without these matters yourself in an under begin to rise again, and the action..
driving them into hospitals, or even standing way. -lin'n sweat.
it
If it be economie needs. "absorp tive capacity," as it is called, the us interrupted growth of enterprise and Its accompanying labour requirements belle it for there is negligible unem ployment in Palestine.
For the Jews Palestine is a life and death necessity; by denying them entry into their National Home the British Government is playing into the hands of Hitler.
-To-day's Thought- THE desert shall rejoice, and blossom like the rose,
-Isafah xxxv, 1.
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