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campaign of terrorism throughout Palestine.

It is the old trouble of the administration of the Bri- tish mandate over Palestine to provide a national home for the Jews while protect- ing the interests of the native Arabs.

HCCS

This time the trouble is graver than ever before. In the unceasing flow of Jowish immi- gration into Palestine the Arab economic and national annihilation..

To emphasise the problem We assist you in this connection which confronts the British without any trouble or complica-Government in bringing peace tion to yourself .delivered again to John Bull's other Ire-

to you at home and subsequently and I here quote the arguments in Hongkong,

Catalogue & Full Particulars from

of the rival Jew and Arab as they were put to me by Mr. M. Shertok, head of the politi cal department of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem, and Abdul Hadi Bay, Fretary of the Arab

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Mr. Shertok: The aim of the present Arab disturbances is to force the hand of the British Phone 27778/9. Government by violence to abandon the principle of the mandate.

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TURABAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1030,

War Editorials

European crisis appeared in the New York Times. It led the page,. without heading, and it was a simple plea that through- out the land, houses of worship

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Abdul Hadi Boy: Nothing of

versus

JEW

A debate giving both sides of the Palestine question

the kind. All the Arab is trying and barren hillside which the

to do is to force the Govern- Arabs never dreamed of culti- ment to administer the man- vating into fertile farms. date fairly. Jews are being allowed to crowd into Palestine

done violence. The shooting

If the

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" * Abdul Hadi Bej: A very in-

him

FACTS

Population of Palestino-760,000

ment has not put these recom- mendations into effect?

Mr. Shartok: Because his-

has Lory

decroca otherwise,

Moslems, 367,000 Jesca, 100,- The mandato has decreed 000 Christians,

1917.-Balfour Declaration

Britain favoured the immigra- tion of Jown, but recognised rights of non-Jews. 1922----Government White Paper emphasized the right of Jews to be in Palestine.

1923.- League of Nations Man-

date granted to Britain.

A

national home for the Jews in Palestine and Great Britain will

not go back on her word,

You Arabs have countries twenty times the size of Pales- tine in which you can develop your nationalist aspirations. The Jews have only the tiny country of Palestine in which to work out their own salvation. In striking and rioting the Arab is committing economic Buicide.

Abdul Hadi Boy:

You have

at such a rate that within a few genious theory, but it does not years the Arabs will be a minority. The Arab High Com- work out in practice in such a The Arab is a benevolent way. ONE of the most impressive tittee which is conducting a

peaceful strike of protest at the simple fellow who is no match editorials of the hundreds rafusal of the Government to for the Jew in business matters. What actually happens is we have read on the recent stop immigration does not con- that a Jew comes along to an

and rioting is a spontaneous Arab farmer and naks outburst of the people them what his land is worth to him selves who see their lands and a year,

If it is worth an income of livelihood being taken away from them. Neither I nor my £200 the Jew will offer him £2,000-a fabulous aum in the colleagues can stop it. strike was called off to-day vio- eyes of the fellaheen-and will tell him how he can invest the lence would still continue.

Mr. Shertok:

not answered my question. Rubbish! The money to bring himself in his

In addition, the Jew capi-

The reason why the recom-

surplus The Arab foolishly takes the Government a prayer that peace and under- for the presence of the Jew and ing.

have visited Palestine have not Jewish capital which has

Not only has this been carried out is because of enabled the standing would come to the brought £100,000,000 into the money and he and his family £6,000,000.

Arab the tremendous pressure of country, than he has ever been and tenants nil lose their safe surplus before. The Palestinian Arab is harbourage on the land. Unable farmers to be relieved of their Jewish vested interests and better off than his brethren in to exploit his £2,000, the Arab Lithes year after year but it has propaganda on The absence of spiritual con- Egypt, Syria, or anywhere else. fritters the money away and be, enabled the administration to pro- his family, and dependents are carry out an ambitious

gramme of social services all of evident than when Mr. Ramsay siderations has been one of the Because of employment given

by Jews the Arab population left penniless.

which mean employment for MacDonald calmly explained remarkable elements of modern has increased by 60 per cent.

away the White Paper which since the war, mainly by Arabs

Abdul Hadi Bey: Then why promised 113 justice. Tho diplomatic relations as well as flocking in from neighbouring of modern commerce. The Ver-countries to share in the new up an enormous market for the is it that every commission of trouble is that the Arab is in-

prosperity.

agricultural produce of the experts which has investigated articulate.

He has no newspapera and no Arab farmers, who can always this matter since 1929 has sailles and Trianon treaties were

produce cheaper than the Jew stated that the Arabs have representatives in the House of Now he is desper- genuine grounds for grievance Commons. Abdul Hadi Bey: Don't try to farmers. written in an atmosphere that

and is making himself make out that the Jew is in The Jewish immigrant be- and have recommended the ate many regarded as irreligious, Palestine for the good of the comes a customer of the Arab stopping of Jowish immigration heard with rifle shot and bomb.

Why Do you blame him? Arab! The Jew is building a

he and land sales to Jews? first moment Invocation of the Deity, how-

is it that the British Govern- national paradise for himself lands in Palestine. ever hypocritical it may be in and making a hell for the Arab. some circles, was wholly absent in the Paris deliberations, and

should include in their devotions Arab is economically better off, orginal income without work- talists have built up for the mendations of the experts who'

world.

in view of the purposes of some

The Jew is conquering the whole of Palestine by financial and political means even as the Italians conquered Abyssinia. The Arab is an agriculturist and for him all riches are in the

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Mr. Shertok: The large town population of Jews have opened

from

the

the Arabs.

Government.

the British

Never were such powers more

Mr. Shertok: Yes,

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Freethinkers-And Freedom

OVERSHADOWED by the alarums

international political

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By "AN OLD STAGER"

The tussle really dates back to w few weeks before the rising of # wenry Purkarment for the long recess, of the negotiators, it was prob-land.

bas been waged with ardent which has been held in London. The when a stout Tory, Caplain Ramsay, He cannot live away from the stuntion, a more limited controversy

bothered the presented a Bill designed to prevent ably more honest that God was land. Now with their unlimited vchemence during the past two or question which has

embailed antagonists is not so much foreigners organising meetings in this of anil: left on the outside.

capital the Jews are buying three months.

It has related to the Conference of whether Freethinkers tee right as coun.ry for the purpose that land and driving him into

Freethinkers. dubbed by their whether Britain ought to permit such religious propaganda.

"The militant Godless," meetings at all. the towns to work at menial enemies tasks as wage-slaves.

Already the Jews have taken.

People who deemed the trea- ties cursed by this circumstance

can make a good case for their all the best plains for cultiva GRIN AND BEAR IT

tion and have bought over dunans (quarter acres) out of the 6,450,000 history. The treaties by their dunans of cultivatable land in

telief in the past twenty years" | 1,600,000

complete avoidance of spiritual Palestine.

According to experts every elements and their emphasis on Arab needs 120 dunans of land: purely material considerations, to support himself and his

bred their own destruction.

Every newspaper in the world written many thousand words on war, racial persecution,

has

family. As far back as 1929 there was only an average of 80 dunans left per Arab family and there is less still now.

Mr. Shertok: That is a com-

plete distortion of the facts. Arabs do not sell all their land crises and the other curses that to the Jews. As a rule they sell beset civilisation to-day, but none a section at a handsome price come closer to the mark than and with the cash go in for in- tensive farming on the remain- the hope that Divine guidance ing section.

Given capital in this way to may be available to repair the

sink wells, provide irrigation wreck that materialism has systems, buy machinery, the made of people and countries, Arab is economically better off

with a smaller area of land. That hope, and its frequent ex. Villages which have sold land pression, is worth more toward to the Jews are better off than villages which have hoarded Further, Abdul

a permanent solution than all their end. the sideline strategy and diplo-Hadi Boy's figures for the amount of cultivatable land in underesti- matic shibboleth that has been Palestine

mate. placed before the public this past six months.

an art

...

The Jew by scientific means la turning vast tracts of desert

Cope, 1006 by Farine Pintura Bystroke Five

By Lichty Inclination

"He won't carry anything but elgsrs—he became a father to-day!"

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The Bill got its flest reading, formality, but it has now passed in- to dust-covered limbo because there was neither to nor perceptible to debate the matter further.

But that does

alter the principle of the thing. The Bill was presented by persistent critic of the polleles and "deologies" of the Soviet Union. He is regarded in Parliament nu a somewhat extreme Tight-wing supporter of the Govern ment.

"Red" Propaganda

Captain Ramsuy 18 n sincerely religious man, and has a horror f Sovietism's famous dictate, "Rellan is the dope of the massts," a saying olten attributed to Lenin, but neiually the announcement of a comparatively obscure parly official.

Some M.Ps abstained from voting: but broudly speaking, Unionists the Op- supported Ramsay, und position voted against him. In fact, nien joined several Government with the Oppositon, and several Labour-Liberol men supported Ram- ay. If I had been MP. I would have voted against Ramsay's Bil. I do not like. It

Captain Ramsay'a point is that the League of the Militant Godless is not so much a group of fre:-thinkers auch as those who emerged in Victorian days, nor that it is merely atheistle; he maintains that it is a

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acilve Communist propaganda.

This may be correct. M. Jaroslavky. a Communist writer, states frankly that The revolutionary proletariat Is not concerned with a merely paper war of the old style of tree thought. (Continued on Page 5.3