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DELIVERY ARABS are waging a
MOTORS
of
your
1939
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-
Vauxhalling the interests of the
If you are going home on leave, this must interest you.
You can arrange to step ashore at home and drive away in your own Vauxhall.
Arabs.
This time the trouble is graver than ever before. In the uncensing flow of Jewish immi- Kration into Palestino the Arab economic and national sees 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 land I here quote the arguments In Hongkong,
of the rival Jew and Arab as they were put to mo by Mr. M. Shertok, head of the politi- cal department of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem, and Abdul Hadi Bey, secretary 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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Thongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1938.
War Editorials
10
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Abdul Hadi Bry: 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- Arals never dreamed of culti- ment to administer the man- vating into fertile farms. date fairly. Jews are being allowed to crowd into Palestine
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Abdul Hadi Bey: A very in- at such a rate that within a few genious theory, but it does not
FACTS
Pepulation of Palvatine—760,000 Mosleme, 307,000 Jews, 100,- 000 Christians..
1917.-Balfour Declaration
Britain favoured the immigra- tion of Jews, 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.
ment has not put these recom- mendations into effect?
a
Mr. Shertok: Because his- decreed otherwise. tory has The mandate has decreed 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.
Arab is committing economic In striking and rioting the
suicide.
years the Arabs will be minority. The Arab High Com- work out in practice in such a NE of the most impressive mittee which is conducting a benevolent way. The Arab is a peaceful strike of protest at the simple fellow who is no match editorials of the hundreds refusal 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 done violence. The shooting
asks him European crisis appeared in the and rioting is a spontaneous Arab farmer and
outburst of the people them what his land is worth to him New York Times. It led the selves who see their lands and a year.
If it is worth an income of livelihood being taken away puge, without heading, and it from them, Neither I nor my £200 the Jew will offer him £2,000-a fabulous sum in the If the was a simple plea that through-colleagues can stop it.
strike was called off to-day vio eyes of the fellahcen-and will out the land, houses of worship lence would still continue.
tell him how he can invest the
Abdul Hadi Boy: You have Mr. Shertuk: Rubbish! The money to bring himself in his
not answered my question. should include in their devotions economically better off, original income without work- In addition, the Jew capi-
The reason why the recom- talists have built up for the mendations of the experta who a prayer that pence and under- for the presence of the Jew and ing.
The Arab foolishly takes the Government П surplus of Jewish capital
has which
have visited Palestine have not Not only has this been carried out is because of standing would come to the brought £100,000,000 into the money and he and his family £6,000,000.
enabled the Arab the tremendous country, than he has ever been and tenants all lose their safe surplus
pressure of world.
before. The Palestinian Arab is harbourage on the land. Unable farmers to be relleved of their Jewish rested interests and better off than his brethren in to exploit his £2,000, the Arab tithes year after year but it has propaganda on the British The absence of spiritual con Egypt, Syria, or anywhere else. fritters the money away and he, enabled the administration to Government.
Never were such powers more siderations has been one of the Because of employment given his family, and dependents are carry out an ambitious pro-
gramme of social services all of evident than when Mr. Ramsay by Jews the Arab population left penniless.
which mean employment for MacDonald calmly remarkable elements of modern has increased by 60 per cent.
explained the Arabs. since the war, mainly by Arabs "Mr. Sherlok: The large town
nway the White Paper which diplomatic relations as well as flocking in from neighbouring population of Jews have opened Abdul Hadi Bey: Then why promised U8 justice. The of modern commerce. The Ver-countrics 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. sailles and Trinnon treaties were
Arab farmers, who can always this matter since 1929 has He has no newspapers and no produce cheaper than the Jew stated that the Arabs have representatives in the House of Abdul Hadi Bey: Don't try to written in an atmosphere that
Now he is desper- genuine grounds for grievance Commons. farmers. make out that the Jow is in The Jewish immigrant be- and have recommended the ate and is making himself many regarded as irreligious. Palestine for the good of the comes a customer of the Arab atopping of Jewish immigration heard with rifle shot and bomb. Invocation of the Deity, how-Arab1
Why Do you blame him?
ever hypocritical it may be in some circles, was wholly absent in the Paris deliberations, and in view of the purposes of some
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moment the first
The Jew is building a from national paradise for himself and making a hell for the Arab, lands in Palestine.
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
he and land sales to Jews?
is it that the British Govern- Mr. Shertok: Yes.
Freethinkers-And Freedom
VERSHADOWED by the alarums (
By "AN OLD STAGER"
OVERS
of the International political
The tussle really dates back to few weeks before the rising of of the negotiators, it was prob-land.
weary Parliament for the long racess, He cannot live away from the situation, a more limited controversy
los been waged with ordent which has been held in London. The when a stout Tory, Captain Ramsay, ably more honest that God was land. Now with their unlimited vehemence during the past two or question whitch has bothered the presented a Bill designed to prevent emballled antagonists is not so much foreigners organising meetings in this left on the outside.
capital the Jews are buying three months,
It has related to the Conference of whether Freethinkers are right as country for the purpose of anti- that land and driving him into
Freethinkers, dubbed by their whether Britain ought to permit such religious
propaganda. the towns to work at menial enemies "the militant Godless," meetings at all. tasks as wage-slaves.
People who deemed the trea- ties cursed by this circumstance
Already the Jews have taken
can make a good case for their all the best plains for cultiva GRIN AND BEAR IT
tion and have bought over dunans (quarter belief in the past twenty years' 1,600,000
acres) out of the 6,450,000 history. The treaties by their dunans of cultivatable land in 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.
family. As far back as 1920 there was only an average of 80 Every newspaper in the world dunans left per Arab family and
there is less still now.
has
Mr. Shertok: That is a com- plote distortion of the facts. Arabs do not sell all their land to the Jews. As a rule they sell a section at a handsome price and with the cash go in for in- tensive farming on the remain-
written many thousand words on war, racial persecution, crises and the other curses that beset civilisation to-day, but none come closer to the mark. than the hope that Divine guidance ing section. may be available to repair the sink wells, provide irrigation Given capital in thin way to wreck that materialism has systems, buy machinery, the made of people and countries, Arab is economically better off
with a smaller area of land.
Villages which have sold land pression, is worth more toward to the Jews are better off than villages which have hoarded a permanent solution than all their land. Further, Abdul the sidelino strategy and diplo- Hndi Bey's figures for the amount of cultivatable land in matic shibboleth that has been Palestine are An underesti- placed before the public this past mate. six months.
TO-MORROW That hope, and its frequent ox-
AT THE
KING'S
The Jew by scientific means is turning vast tracts of desert
PICE FZNARD
Dope, 18 by Dalšek Punime Braasium, the
By Lichty
"ile won't carry anything but cipars he became a father to-day!”
that
the
The Bill got its first reading, a formality, but it has now passed In- to dust-covered limbo because there was neither time nor perceptible inclination to debale
matter further. But
alter the does not principle of the thing. The Bill was presented by a persistent critic of the policies and ideologies" of the Soviet Union. He is regarded in Parliament as a somewhat extreme right-wing supporter of the Govern- ment.
"Red" Propaganda
Captain Ramsay is a sincerely religious man, and has a horror of Sovictim's famous dictate, "Religion is the dope of the masses," a saying often attributed to Lenin, but actually the announcement of a comparatively obscure party offcial.
Some MPs abstained from voting; but broadly speaking, Unionists supported Ramsay, and the Op- position voted against him: In fact, several Government nien Joined with the Opposition, and several Labour-Liberal men supported Ram- If I had been M.P. I would have voted against Ramany's Bill. I do not like. It.
Bay.
Captain Ramsay's point is that the League of the Militant Godless is not so much a group of free-thinkers Auch ns those who emerged in Victorian days, nor that it is merely atheistic; he maintains that it is a cover-up for
Communist propaganda.
active
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 free thought. (Continued on Page 5.)
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