1947-02-22 — Page 4

Quick Guide: PALESTINE CRISIS:

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1947.

HOW IT ALL BEGAN

T started like the Arabian By J. A.

Nights. Persians, Assyrians. Egyptians and Greeks and !

Atkinson In Jerusalem they built a university.

The Germosa sent an army to the tribes of Israel squabbled reinforce the Turks in Palestine. over Palestino.

Britain ni Allenby's army and the Anzacs. And Colonel T. E. Lawrence here (of Arzbin) worked quietly and there,

the Jews. It The war thinned Riso built for them a sound British adminstration. But they wanted

: enuntry as well, and Arthur Bal

to meet their wishes.

For 1,000 years it went on, this rise and fall of kingdoms, untit Antiochus led In an urmy from Syria; to meet his Invasion the Jewish Realstance was born-105 years before the birth of Christ.

The leader was Judas Maccabacus "The Haminer"), sn of n

11s guerlilas chopped up the rat. four, British Foreign Secretary tried |

garrisons of Antiochus and carved out Jewish States all over the coun-

Their agent went to Rome and were helped to wealsen An- tiochus's army. The Romans were planning to take Palestine for them- helves.

They did. In a roll wall of awords and shields the 10th Legion, under Titus marched Into Jeruzalem and enslaved the Jews in thousands. The Iron rule lasted almost 600 years

nt the Roman Empire la the East cracked and into Palestine poured Arab armies whose descen dants have clung to the rocky valleys since 830 A.D.

The Holy Ware PEACE of a sort came with them.

Christianity survived.

Turkey attacked in 1072, sacked Jerusalem and slaughtered the Christians in thousands. The Wes- tern world declared a holy war. The Crusades were on.

Ten times the people of Britain, France and Germany emptied their treasure chests to equip ships und The Crusaders triumphed, armies. Godirey de Bouillon was crowned King of Jerusalem, and for 88 years the city kingdom survived 171 welter of intrigue before it fell. to the Turks again, in 1187,

Napoleon

LAVES Were

SLAV

the once

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whipped where Christians prayed. Harems Bourished in the temples. Came the Mongolians, cante Egypt- ions. But the Turks of Sutton Sein the Grim were holding Palestine in 1510.

And their dominion went al- most unchallenged until Napoleon! invaded in 1708 and marched on Turkey self.

Fleet intervened

The British Napoleon withdrew. The Turks stayed.

And then, at the Turkish Empire weakened, Palestine became the colony of Europe. Russian, French, even American traders poured in for 10 years.

German "tourists" followed quick- ly after a visit by Kaiser Wilhelm 11. in 1898, their eyes on the beauties of the Holy Land, and on the oil of neighbouring Persin..

World War I

world went a' call by To the

Theodor Herzl, founder of the new Zionism: "Let there be a Jewish home in Palestine." But the world was not listening. The 1914 war was

6001 on.

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

JEWISH AGENCY: A public hady set up in terms of ar- ticle 4 of the Mandate given

by to Great Britain League of Nations.

the

Its functions include advising with the and co-operating

Palestine Administration In on such economic, social and other mailers ns may affect the establishment of the Jewish

National Home and the Interests of the Jewish population in Palestine, PALESTINE ARAB HIGHER COMMITTEE: A body of re- presentative Arabs originally nominated by the ex-Grand Mufti of Jerusalem to deler- roine the polley of Palestinian Araba and direct their poli- tical actions.

STERN GANG: A small'ex- tremist group belloving In terrorism. Refects all Jewish Named After authorities. their Inte leader. Abraliom Stern,

IRGUN

ZVAI LEUMI: Hebrew for "National Military Organisation." An extremist force rrjeeling the the

Agency

and

arined Jewish Jewish National bstitutions in Palestine. to HAGANAII: The Hebrew word for "defence." The organisa- of able-bodied men and women in Jewish Palestine

themselves formed to protect against atinek. A sort of Home Guard. PARTITION: A plan for dividing Palestine Into Jewish and Arab Independent Stutes.

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His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment Palestin: of a National Il me for the Jewish people, and will use

eir best endeavours to facilitate the achieve ment of this object, it being charly be

shall

And the Jewish Agency was cstol- shed to develop the national home.

The Arabs declared war. Support

for the red-bearded Mufti of Jerusa lem caine, from the entire Arab world.

STARTS TO DAY: 'NEW DAILY FEATURE

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber,

LETTER кля recently quietly shooting my beasts in the published in a morning

car.

A paper complaining that "The The pygmy cows of Papua remarkable pygmy rhinoceros I the pygmy rhinoceros is small

Britain, trying to make pence, pro-extinction." posed separate Arab And Jewish States in 1030. Yes, said the Jews No, sald the Arabs, and fought on. World War II

REMEMBER that Bontefonto said,

of Borneo is threatened with game, then the giant beetle of Kash--

mir, is big game, and fine fools we The should look shooting beetles." the home of this important creature, Papua whi

1 was ence in Central Sarawak, talk then turned to the tiny cows of which the head-hunters milk Most of the head- as the guest_of____ man named, } into egg-cups, curiously enough, Bontofonto. There hunters are themselves pygmies, and IN 1039 came the threat of world was nothing to do but shoot, so we can stand erect under the cow's belly

war. To placate the Arabs Bri-made up a party to go after the when it rains, or when hiding from: Huxley: pygmy rhinoceros. But, realising witch-doctors, how near the species was to extinc- would probably deny the possibility: tion. we took special cure not to of this, but I have seen it happen at sheat to kill. We held our fire until Loanga.

tain restricted the sale of land to Jews and pegged their immigration at 75,000 tor live yourя. A White Paper sald a democratic Government would be formed later.

Professor

we saw the yellow of its eyes, and | In old Sarawak aimed at the right car, thus only rightly wounding our beast,

But the war swept the problem of Palestine maide...until Inst spring when an Anglo-American commin-So near and yet safari slon went to investigate and recom mended that 100,000 Jews be allowed to enter at once. Prezident Truman! gave personal support to this recom mendation.

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THE natives of Sarawak make whaling-gloves out of the kin of the pygmy rhinoceros. The fet Jocks are sulted and rubbed with 2 EATING, the well-known small- spices, and then eaten with glargon, game hunter, was of cur party, which are large strips of tree-bark dipped in a solution of resin. Withi and started a violent controversy. The Morrison-Grady plan-th- lle claimed that the pygmy rhino- this they drink the hot milk of the

cross between Jemango, a

huge sequently evolved by another Anglo-ceros is by no means big game, but jem American

a reindeer, found only committee suggested small game, and should be sprinkled raven and

neur

water-boles. provincia! autonomy for both Jews with powder like a beetle, cockroach up-country.

swallow and Aruba with a central British or other bug. As the pygmy rhino. have seen a crocodile administration with control over

ceros is very short-sighted, we were pygmy rhinoceros whole, and have Immigration and defence, Jews and

able

E- to approach upwind, and done nothing whatever about

glamorous Arabs rejected it.

within sprinkling distance. And so we bid farewell to coine Britain invited both sides to Lon- But the powders had no effect be- Borneo, pearl of the Islands, while: don to tak over the whole thing.yond making it sneeze, and several the sun sinks behind the lagoon, and The talks falled, and the question is: members of our party said they the wurlitzer sprays a mist of this, whining music over us all. So long, folks. I'll be seeing you.

DOW

Palestine is

rhinoceros sneeze.

to be referred to the United hadn't come all this way to hear a Nations,

I myself went on FOOTNOTE: slightly larger than Sicu, 10,120 square miles. Population, approxi

mately 1,000,000 Arabs, 500,000 Jews and 120,000 of other races.

WORLD RADIO

STATIONS

Now

A

booklet, "Broadcasting Stations Of The World", has been issued in Britain which will meet a long-felt want on the part of many |

radio listeners.

The publishers are lifte and Sons,

on the introduction, the editor of "Wireless World" explates that post-war disorganisation of broad-

casting has complicated the task of preparing this booklet, but that the information given has been compiled from the best available sources,

The list of long-wave and medium-wave stations clocs not necessarily conform to the Lucerne Plan in this booklet, but gives the frequencies at present employed stations in the European Zone, which, for the purpose of frequenes allocations, is bounded on the north Europe, on the cast by the meridian 40 degrees cast and on the south by the parallel 30 degrees north.

understood that 50 ludice, the clvil and west by the natural limits of

dene which may

and religious rights of existing non- Jewish communities.

Palestine... Ruling onder a mandats passed by the League of Nations, Britain tried to be fair to Arab and Jew alike.

Arabs chafed. The The

Jews poured in 33,801 immigrants in 1925 alone.

Tel-Aviv they made their slow city. Haifa they industrialised.

In the case of the short-wave transmitters, the list includes both the frequencies at present employed by stations and those allocated, to them although not necessarily in use at the time of the preparation of the dału.

ARD

YOU GUILTY

OF BABY TALK

People who say "ta ta" when they mean "good-bye" are addicts of hypocorism, better known as baby talk. The odd thing about baby talk is that it is usually an adult failing. Babies are taught it.. 【JOZZIT Wozz

mummy's

it.

honey major forms of baby talk. Yet some

tootsy wootsy hurty wurty? Would-ums like go nice ta ta? Nursery expressions such as these are giving America the reputation of being one of the world's outstanding baby-tolking nations.

even from the

writings of George

os came from oversen sources Bernard Shaw and Jonathan Swift,

Six Classifications Here are Dr Read's six elgssifier- Uons:

Long-Range Strategic Reasons Caused Russia

To Strip Manchuria

By WALTER G. RUNDLE

United Press Std ! Correspondent

Soviot Russia's "long-range strategic" purposes, credited by U.S. Reparations Commissioner Edwin S. Pauloy with motivating Russia's stripping of Manchurian industry, aro considered by well-informed American and Chinese sources to have been fargoly achieved in the 18 months sinco Soviet troops entered Manchuria under provisions of the Yalta Agracment.

These quarters say subsequent | percent of the industrial potential Manchuria developments have revealed that of the Far East, with the "long range strategic rea- dominating the overall pleture, be- cause of her tremendous natural Bon," mentioned by Pauley

resources.

were:

Russin, these quarters and, has 1-Destruction of the Industrial not fogotten that some Japanese war potential built up by Japan dur- lenders wanted to use this potential ing 10 years of occupation of Man- first for an attack against Russia, churia

the rather than against

United Stutes. Therefore, in Russian cyes, possible niles of the prospect of they believe it became of paramount recreating that industrial war paten- importance to negate Manchuria as

an industrial base.

2--Dental China and any

to

DEC

tial in the forseeable future.

3-Attainment of zi pastilan as- Soviet auspicion of United States tride the Shanghai, Tokyo, Yokomotives and American co-operation hama Industrial line, from which with China, these sources believe. could be observed any development heightened Moscow's resolve. The considered menacing to Soviet in Soviets, they say, would consider an teresis.

industrialised Manchurla a "dagger". 4temoval to Central and East-pointed at Russia. ern Siberia of the industrial poten- The gutting of Manchurlons indus- tial formerly centred in Manchuria try. which Pauley's conservative and Japan.

estimate placed at US$2,000,000,000, All these long-range objectives, Į Lopustailed any attempt by the Unit- these sources contend, either have cd States to help China build a huge been attained or are in process of industrial potential there. being attained.

The background for Russia's de- termination to break Manchuria's in- dustrial back, they say, was Japan's achievement in developing in Japan nd Manchuria, In the 10 years be- ginuing 1931. an industrial bare from which to wage war against the

world.

Negate ilase Japan and Manchuria by 1941

and

Russia has long sought n warm- at water port, and her attainment

and recog- Yalta of necess to Dalst

with nition of her joint Chips in operation of the Chinese

South

Manchurian Eastern Hailways, gave her the desired post- tien astride the

TORY Shonghai,

How Yokohama Intiustrial line. tensive her uperallons in Manchuria eventually

***

had grown to possess jointly 100 term may be has not been de-

Dr Read leaped upon the sweet no- things addressed by Jonathan Swift to his Stella and noted that Swift was addicted to "whisper dispers" at the very time, in 1712, when he was writing his "Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Assertalning the Eng- lish Tongue

A

these sources say, because her apparent interpretation of joint management of the ruliways extends to numerces spur lines and sub-

ball sidiary Industries which Japan along the rail-lines,

Russia is known to have engaged during the war and since in a fove rish programme af building a vast Industry in Siberin, centring in the Irkutsk

Chita and Khabarovsk

Siberian Developments

quarters To-day, well-informed estimate that #5 percent of the in- dustrial potential of the Far East centers in Russin's now Siberian developments. This, they stress, does not mean that Russia has as yet achieved in those areas 95 percent of the prewar productive capacity of Japan and Manchuria. But 95 per- cent of Asia's present industrial capacity in centred there.

Children Exonerated Fourthly, baby, talk in advertising.areas.

and radio advertising, inclurling Dr Rearl qupted samples from print-

Baby Shoppe," cereais called

" and "Belts Puddy, "Lishun" and underwear called

nied "Woffice," The other two classifications were the baby talk of adults used in wheedling spirit, and baby talk used for sarcastle and satirical effect, Dr Read mentions Sinclair Thornton Wilder. Dorothy Parker, Secondly, baby talk which grown- Edna Ferber, Booth Tarkington and ups use in conversation with their D. H. Lawrence asbaby-talk writers. dogs and other pets. Dr Rend quoted He emphasised that children com- from Shaw's "Androcies and theprise the only population group not

"Androcles Lion,"

says. guilty of baby talk unless it is in- "Didum get an awful thom in um's stilled into them. He made it clear toolsums wootsums?"

that a child would learn the purest English if it were delivered to him

teach their children. Dr Rend quoteded

First, baby talle which the adulta lexicographer Noah Webster on this subject. "Silly language called 'baby A professor who had not left his talk into which most people are Ini- specksle weeksles at heme had a goodtiated in infancy often breaks out in deal to say about baby talk in a lee discourse at the age of forty and ture to the Modern Languages Asso-makes a man appear very ridiculous. ciation of America in Washington. A boy of six may be taught to speak

He was Dr Allen Walker Head of

as correctly ns Cicero did before the Roman Senate." Columbia University's Department of English, who denounced the insidious growth of sugary talk.

Exponents of baby talk, he said, were more often grown-ups than | babies.

Britons nccused

of babying the King's English much more than Americans did,. Dr Read accused Americaty of practising six

While

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

I DIDN'T KNOW YOU'D

EVEN STARTED 'EA

YET!

WELL WHADDYA

KNOW!

HOLE!"

he

where

Thirdly, the cloying words with which one lover talks to another. straight.

'I SAID TWO OUT O' THREE....

REMEMBERS 7-

Lewis,

American strategle bombing of Japon the reparations programme which will further reduce Japan's Industry, and the Soviet gutting of Manchuria combined to achieve this shirt in the Industrial balance to Siberia.

"Those Little Subterfuges"

BY KEMP STARRETT

POLDEAR! SO

LATE...! AUCT

AURRY! JUST

SEND IT TO

TUS ADDREST AID CHARGE IT, PLEASE! G'BYE A

THE GREAT DISCOV→ EDY.... MADE IT LEAST A WEEK AGO.

→

THAT OLD ONE...........WHEN THEY LOSE. THE TOSS.

"TAL NOT VERY HUNGRY....! TANK I'LL JUST HAVE A SAID-

VICIA

SOME GALS SPEND TWO HOURS TRYING ON WATS,FIND NONE CHEAPER TIMI FORTY BICKS AUD, RATHER THAN ADMIT THEY CAN'T AFFORD ANY OF THEAL, DECIDE TO CHARGE ONE TO A NOW-EXISTENT ACCOUNT.

DARLING!

WHERE HAVE

YOU BEEN KEEDING

YOURSELF

Ledger Syndicate

"DID YOU SEL

WOUT THE

MARKET

"ER.... BY TH' WAY AL...ER COULD

SOME OF THE BOYS ARE ÁS SUBTLE AS A TWO-DOLLAR TQUPE.

THE BREAST OF GUINEA HEN

LOOKS GOOD...

AND CAVIAR, OF COURSE

ETC.

DID THIS

WEEK?

BOY, DID! J. TAKE AN

BEATING

SAY DEAR! -SUCH A

SURPRISE, SEEING

YOU HERE

SOME LADS HAVE A CORT OF INTERNAL RADAR, VIACH GNES WARNING OF AN APPROACHING TOUCH...JKT.IN TIME TO BEAT TREAL TO THE HARD-LUCK STORY,

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WHEN THE GALS WHO DETECT EACH OTHER GET TOGETHER THEIR PRETENSES ARE AS TRANS-

PARENT AS A CELLOPHANE BAG