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Jew and Arab
One of the anomalies of the present conversations between Arab and Jew at St. James's Palace in London is that. although they cannot agree on a basis for settlement them- selves, they expect Britain to wave the magic wand that will bring understanding and peace to the Holy Land.
Why Britain should be wor- ried by this problem is beyond understanding. Yet a solution is of as much importinco to
T
in
WINGS
over.
Suburbia
HE drone of warplanes the sky becama louder and louder. Tho sun caught their-wings. as they wheeled round, three flights of them, and made swiftly to where I stood, almost paralysed with fright, watching them.
They were headed siri'gh for me, but at the last moment they passed, with an appalling roar. Just over my head, so low that, had I not been hunched up, with my eyes shut tight, I could doubtless have made out the .pilots' faces.
When my ears had again be- come capable of normal hear- ing the noise had faded into drone the
continuous low,
the which, eternally, filled akles.
No, I was not, anywhere in Spain, or Chinn, but standing at the front door of a pleasant trim suburban house with a
garden and concrete, paths, a couple of hundred yards from
by
FRANK TILSLEY
famous novelist and writer, who lives there-
they're often at it until one in the morning-and as often as not they wake me up again at four. Untor- tunately I'm a light sleeper. Still," she said. "I suppose we've just got to get used to it,"
Elsewhere I found a householder 50 philosophical, Wasn't
who "Yes," he said, "I suppose you can Ret used to anything in a way, but I notice that all my neighbours to be damn bad-tempered scem lately."
I looked, as well as listened, and planca counted eight separate wandering slowly. about various It parts of the afternoon sky.
seemed impossible that these tiny shining objects, so remote at the for the moment, were
Northolt Aerodrome, in Middle- continuous, drone
sex,
EALLY, 's quiet to-
"R day." zaid Mrs. Powell.
• You Clyfford-rond. should be here some days! In the course of one morning we saw sixty-nine machines and often as many as fifty up together."
"I'm glad I didn't come when it I said, eyeing. was busy, then,' naxiously, another fleet of bombers banking against the wind over the nerodrome, I should think it would drive you mad, this row going on, all day long."
it was only during the day- time it wouldn't be so bad," said Mrs. Powell, keeping an eye on her fair, curly-headed two-year-old son, playing on the pavement, "but
which, by its very persistence,
under somehow got right
your skin. bit "You know," he said, "It's a thick for people like us who hap- pen to have chosen districts like this, where R.A.P. activity has so enormously increased. The whole neighbourhood, here, has deterior- ated liko magic. Originally every- body owned their houses and were proud of them.
"Now the noise has driven some of them out, and the houses aro being ranted to people who don't care twopence."
H
E had to stop tot a
while minute
three gigantic bombers, so low that I had to check myself from ducking, roared overhead, shaking a bicycle against a wall and, for a
Britain as it is to the Jews and PEACEFUL PENETRATION
Arabs, for the difficulties and trials of Palestine are a crisis, more or less, to the entire world. A solution would mean much for the Jews in Germany,, for instance.
Can
an accommodation be renched? Yes-on conditions. How did the trouble arise? During the war, Britain pro- mised the Jews a national home in Palestine. Britain also made a treaty promising to set up an Arab State there.
COME years ago I wished to visit
a
I
at the side of a river. Other fields
to
Blog the Brazillan
some
He told me that the Japanese small village called Itarary In colony had been established the south of Brazil. The train ser-year before, and how he had been vice to it was very regular, and I sent with the people to teach the deelded to go by road. This proved children. He took me round some to be little more than red earth of the houses, and I enw that the track winding along the coast, and people were living as Japanese in The-Brazilian-Government had. through-virgin-jungle, but after some every sense of the world. hours of uncomfortable driving sighted a small village lying amongst been very anxious to avoid the estab- 11shment of States within States, and cultivated flekis in a small valley.
drove through fields of sweet the Japanese had shown their good National peppers and past fields where rice intentions by teaching the children was sprouting from the damp earth Anthem. But I am afraid that that were used for market gardening and was as far as the good intentions went, for in the Japanese Itarary 1 showed fine crops or cabbage, lettuce, saw no signs of the children becom and other greens. Finally I drove ing Brazillans. The schoolmaster Into the village and found myself, told me quite frankly that he was much to my surprise, in Japani Or Ever since then, Britain hast seemed from all I saw around paid by the Japanese Government to
maintain a, proper sense of nation' been trying to keep both prom-me.
Hence the con- mises at once. fusion..
This condition cannot con- tinue, and Britain must realise it. The Jews must realise, also, that the Arabs are the native people of the country.
about
-these
they inhabit.
of
Planking the one and only street lity amongst the Japanese people.
It is not surprising that the Brazi were houses completely unlike the
large colonies red clay huts beloved of the Brazilian lian Government is now anxious lond worker. They were of wooden trames covered with straw matting foreigners who have no intention of and thick paper panels. The panels, becoming nationals of the country 1 discovered later, were composed of many layers of cheap wallpaper glued together. The outer walls were in typical decorated with Japanese painting, and open doors! showed rooms apparently devold of furniture.
some cuses
The fact that the Jews settled in Palestine thousands of years
NAKED AND UNASHAMED ago should
them not give
Numerous naked chlidren played in? The Romans act priority now.
the street, their waan yellow skins. tled in Britain two thousand glowing in the bright sunlight. At years ago. But that does not one door squatted in old Japanese woman dressed in an ancient silk mean that the Italian restaur- rabe while the puffed a curiously atcurs in London can claim to shaped pipe. A another an old man with a straggly white beard was control the Government laboriously writing on a sheet of paper with a small brush.. Ho show- Whitehall.
ed absolutely no curiosity when I stopped my car and alighted.
in
On the other hand, the Arabs
Among the naked children I noticed must remember that the Jews some, both boys and girls, of at least settled in Palestine with the twelve years of age, and could not help contrasting this with Brazilian assistance and protection of the children of the same age, Brazilians British Government, and that learn modesty (false or otherwise) protection cannot be revoked very early in life, and would never dream of going about unclothed. The
howover, Japanese children, were not in the least embarrassed by their nakedness, and they crowd- ed round me as I walked along the strect.
now.
The immediate solution of the problem seems to depend on the prohibition of any more Jewish Immigration into Palestine.
What is the ultimate solution to be?
At one part I found the vilinge large school, small building in open space. The children were all out in the open, sented on the ground as they chanted some lesson after the teacher. There seemed to be no lock of discipline, and the children Some suggest a plan for aald not so much as glance in my Federation including Syria and direction until the lesson was over. Trans-Jordan (to where rioting STATE WITHIN STATE : spread yesterday with heavy After that I spoke to the school- loss of life) in which the in- master and explained that I had been terest of the Jews could be safe, coing to iterary, but bad. seemingly arrived in Japan. He laughed and guarded. This may be one way explained in good English that this out. But there are many dif-wastarary the Japanese part of it The older Brazilian village was s ficulties in the way:
mile, or so along the road.
Miller Watson.
brief frightening moment, blot- sing out the sun.
"Seventy-five tons there," he grinned.
of metal
"Take my case, though." he went on. "I paid £525 for my house. nearly three years ago. I still owe £450 on mortgage. But if I cleared off from here, as I'd like to do. would I be able to get my money buck? Some people have just run for it, in the night, leaving the houses without notice; but why should respectable folk like us have to slink away like that. like so many criminals? It isn't good enough."
As I was talking to A youns mother nearby, we were interrup- ted by the most frightful sound I have ever heard. It was like the highest note of a shrieking woman caught and petrified. It just went on and on and on; the one high unbelievable note, coming, appa- curious-looking rently, from a pinno which hardly seemed to be moving.
FOUND myself taut, waiting for it to stop. gripping my pencil as though it was a last straw, saving
mie from drowning. At last, it moved out of hearing, and we both sighed together.
That's the thing I can't stand,” alic said. "It's controlled by wire-. less or something. Though, really," it's my children I'm frightened for most. I'm terrified of a crash,
You know there was one a few. miles away some weeks ago? The pilot was buried forty feet, they say. It took hours to dig him out. I keep on at my husband to move. but he's got to be near his job, you
sce.
If you ask me anything, a war could almost be a relief, more than anything else. It will end this 20- awful tension, anyway. If it's ing to keep en much longer, then I say the sooner we have a war and get it over and done with the bet- ter. If it
for the children Wasn't
go mad. Two neigh- bours of mine are under the doctor with nerves-do you wonder?
I'm sure I'd go
called on a local doctor, who told me he had nerve cases, yes, but the astonishing thing to hini was that he hadn't got consider- ably more. "It's wonderful the way people somehow keep control over themselves," he said. "Sim" ply wonderful. You might almost call it heroic."
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THIRD OF A SERIES OF ABSORBING
ARTICLES FROM LONDON ON
Britain Prepares For War
EDITOR'S NOTE: In the next war Britain, for the first timo In 900 years, will be in grave danger of armed Invasion. In the past the. navy kept her The danger shores intact.
now is from the air. To meet this modern peril,-Britain is. organising her civil population. Every able-bodied man and woman will have a job to do. This series of articles tells the story of Britain's army of "passive defence", and of the hundred-and-one other ways in which Britain is preparing for war at home.
By H. L. PERCY United Press Staf Correspondent -
ACTUAL, visible evidence of
Britain's preparation for the next war is practically non- existent. Most of the plans, possibly 90 per cent., are still on paper.
A stranger arriving in Englund would have a hard job reconciling any ideas he might have that Britain is panic-strickenly throwing up the barricades with the actual facts.
The normal life of the country is scarcely ruffled. Defence is seldom a topic of conversation.
Almost-the only concrete evidence the stranger would see to-day are the trenches, relics of the September crisis. And they are not much to look at. Just long banks of upflung earth, marring the symmetry of the parks, and often as nok half-full of waler,
PROTECTION FOR 1,000,000 THEY were crude, hastily contrived. affairs, and the government has now more or less abandoned them It has as a means of protection. ordered that those already dug are to be reinforced with steel and kept in good condition, but no more are to be built. The banks of earth are Thom to be made into flower-beds. can, if necessary; provide protection for about 1,000,000 people.
The stranger might also see a few men and women wearing Kttle silver badges of various shapes in their button-holes. These are the insignia of the qualified air-raid precautions workers, or the auxiliary police, or one of the scores of other volunteer defence services.
But the stranger would be un- usually fortunate if he were to meet one of these workers. In my own quite wide circle of acquaintances, -UTSIDE-two-boys,-four-I-know of barely half-a-dozen who
or ve years old, sat on the pavement playing with a pile of gravel left there for road surfacing. Five fights of heavy planes, hurtling a couple of hundred foot above them, didn't make them look up.
"They were big ones,” I said.
Gloucester Gladiators," said the bigger boy.
Go on," said the other. "you" don't know anything; Bristol Bulldogs, those were."
"Bristol Buildogs?" jeered the first boy, gripping his spade pug- naciously. they're fighting ma- chines. Those there are bombers,
I left them to It,
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have taken up A.IL.P. work. There is that definitely no sign as yet of nation-wide response to the govern- ment's call to national service, for which it hopes,
NEWSPAPER CRITICISM THE STRANGER would gather most of his information from the newspapers. Not a day posses with- out some story in all the papers. Sometimes just a paragraph record- ing the initiative of 'some local coun-- cil. Sometimes a front-page story Kovernment announcement. More often than not, a criticism of existing conditions.
on a
And always there are advertise- ments for air-raid protection, from two-linc "classifieds to full-pago spreads. They offer shelters, shovels, pails, asbestos sults, wardrobes for keeping air-raid kit, sand-bags, and a hundred and ono articles that might be useful in a dug-out.
The shelters range from crude affairs of corrugated iron over a hole in the back-yard, which cost about 21. to de-luxe concrete, pill-boxes, fully equipped, from £20 upwards,
The shovels and pails are for handling facendiary "bombs. They followed the government's statement that every household should be equip ped with a long-handied shovel and a large in pall. The idea is that u an Incendiary bamb dropa in your parlour you can scoop it into a pall- ful of sand and rush it out of harm's way,
Continuing the stranger's adven- tures; he would undoubtedly cin- barrass. nine people out of ten if be asked them what they had done with their gas-muska.
Forty million of them wero distri buted in crisis week. Previously the government had said that they would: be stored to prevent deterioration.... But after the crisis, it was decided to let the pubile' take care of them!,- and cardboard boxes were to be pro- vided for themi
Most people threw them into cupboard, out of sight and mind. Others gave them to the children to play with. A few found them a satisfactory means of committing suicide.
One
man, at least, destroyed his He was summoned for damawing: government property, but the mogle strate ruled that it was his own pro- perly, the gift of the government.
There was an order that locat A.R.P. organisations should visit every household and check up on their masks,” replacing, faulty goner, of which there were many in the September Lish. But this: 15% tube
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