1947-12-27 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1947.

PALESTINE

AS THE HOLY WAR' IS DECLARED, THE H.K. TELEGRAPH INVITES TWO- BRITISH EX-OFFICERS' VIEWS ON AN ISSUE WHICH DIVIDES THE WORLD

It's the Jews' own

land-let them in!

BELIEVE that the UNO partition plan, creating separate Jewish and Arab States, is the most hopeful and constructive item of polley the United Nations has yet

achieved.

It is the only major inter- national problem whose solution is backed by Big Powers ngree- ment. It has the support of a more than two-thirds majority of the 57 free nations of the world.

It gives the Jews statehood once again-after 2.000 years of wandering, persecution, in- dignity. It is part of the world's compensation for pogrom

injustice and

which have ravaged, but never destroyed, the Jewish people through the long centuries.

The link between the People of the Book and the Land of the Bible has never for a mo- ment been served. Ever since their great Dispersion, there has always been a Jewish com- munity in Palestine. Wherever Jews have been they have al ways yearned for the return to war. Zlon.

by Commander

F. ASHE LINCOLN

- K.C. and prospective Tory candidato for. East Harrow, ox Commando who took part in tandinge at Salerno twice mentioned la despatches.

Palestine has become, through the sweat And sacrifice

of Jewish ploneers, the garden of the Middle East.

can

seen of them, the Jewn of Pricaline ato prepared for itThey defend themselves. And they are ready to do so, They reckon that anything worth having is worth fighting for. And they reckon that statehood, for which they have yearned for 2,000 years, is, worth having

FOR DEFENCE

Not a single Arab has been dis- possessed. On the contrary, the THEY will do so through Haganah. This force has beca semi-legal Arab population increase has been greater than the Jewish. A genera- for years. And it has never com tion ago Palestine was the country mitted an aggressive not, It will from which Arabo departed to not start now.', neighbouring lands. Today, they But the Jews will defend them- flock back to it.

selves even from external attack It may not come. For the nonrby

States are more likely Arab quarrel

themselves among who gets the Arab part of Palestine. Abdullah wants it. So do the And Iraqis. So Jo the Syrians. Ibn Saud holds a watching brief. Firm UNO action can prevent at- tack. If it falls, Haganah will be

The Arab peasant and worker knows he can live happily with his Jewish neighbour. And he wants

10.

But he is still bound by the feudal fetters of Arab leaders like the Mufi of Jerusalem. When he has resisted the Mufti's blandishments he has been murdered. In the three

ree there. years of Arab terror before the war, more Arabs-opponents of the Mufti

-than Jews were murdered by the sacrifice for the Jews.

Eminence's henchmen.

FRIENDS IN WAR

HIE Jewn of Palestine fought with Teie war. The. Muft! of Jerusalem spent the war years with Hitler in Berlin, trying to rouse the

mocracies.

Moslem -world against the de

to over

A final word. Partition is a great

The

Balfour Declaration

Favo

FOCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

CAFE

" that a brand-new

number, dearie, or, have you

just let the hem down?*--

LABOUR POINT

OF VIEW

them Palestine and Transjordan By Ernost Thurtlo, M.P.

1922,

-45,000 square miles, Ih Transjordan-35,000 square miles

given was lopped off and Abdullah. Now they have had half the remaining 10,0

10,000 square. miles amputated.

of

RANCE these days should be an object lesson to the British trade union movement.

In that unhappy country the

They have accepted the loss as Communists, entrenched in key the price of peace. They have ac, trade union positions, aro ex- cepted it because it means the im-ploiting the unsettled economic While young · inen-had

medlate women--

freedom of hundreds of Haganak, defence militla of Palestine Jewry, were engaged on dropping by dangerous missions, parachule behind the enemy lines the Arabs of the Middle East were

in

thousands of their brothers stul and political conditions with languishing in the camps of Europe. utter disregard for the welfare

of the people as a whole.

busy fighting us-as Iraq-or PARTI

IMPETUS

They fled the same ignoble role in the recent war, unt" Hitler at- tacked Russia, helping the Fascists

their 10 bring about

country's collapse in 1040.

The present situation emphasises once more that the first loyalty of a is not to his own country, but to the wishes of Moscow.

well in the late war-by keeping the success of the "Zlonist expert. Communist, of whatever nationality, i out.

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the Com- ofTTAPPILY in Britain

HA

munists. have so far failed to capture control of the trade union movement.

the DARTITION means end of nessm

Britain's beadaches. A Jewish "did well" out of the 1914- Stle may mean the injection of 10 war. They

back- were given free the life-giving drug to the Stater in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, ward Middle East. Lebanon, TransJordan. They did

Lawrence once prophesied that as he called it, could give Palestinian Jews served

Yet none is more vocal than the ment,"

terrine impetus to the develop- The Arabs of And those yearnings in his ranks.

Palestine is their re- Arab States.

It finds were expressed in their prayers. Palestine were either hostile or tense valve, Corrupt and inefficient, ment of the Arab States. The ex

periment has succeeded. The neutral. T. E. Lawrence drew flery words about Palestine are fulfilment in, UNO's backing They were dispersed.

would statehood. land was overrun by raiders, not ou Palestine but on Arabia cake to their mosses, who

otherwise demand bread and work,

Balfour, Lloyd George, Churchill, The Jewish population declined. for his mercenaries,

and health services for their chil-

and Smuts once believed that the And with it the land.

The Balfour Declaration followed, dren. Jews

always there.

endorsed by the League of Nations. There must always be a scapegoat interests of a Jewish Palestine and I belleve their own Britain march together. Though the land which hnd Unlike the documents which Arabs to turn attention from flowed with milk and honey like to produce, this declaration was, internal failures. During the cholera they do. I am confident that they

unequivocal in its promise-creation tragedy in Egypt, the Egyptian will.

Terrorism has obscured the fact with- became, through centuries

of a Jewish National Home.

Government tried to blame neglect, a barren wilderness,

Since then, Jews have

drained drawing British troops for polluting that the Jews were the only single Now they can rant and loyal element Britain possessed in the malarial

throughout cleared deadly the water. marsh,

the the Middle East

war. With wisdom, and honesty the new scapegoat, from

oik both sides, that can continue in And from what I have the future, may be.

were

THE PROMISE

But

of

IT was in this desert that Field- swamp, reconquered the land not rave about a Jewish State as

from the Arabs but

Marshal Lord Allenby fought mosquito, the sandly, the ravages of Will there be trouble? There his campaign in the first world wind and yun.

I'm for the Arabs

-they deserve

to win

NLY the fact that I am now a civilian and that I

feel deep sorrow at news which

the inevitable means

death of many of my friends lends me to write this article.

Refore attempting to explain the which hopelessness sillusioned

I must has led the Arabs to war, Hive my own personal opinion on United which the the case Nations has just passed judgment.

The Arabs have lived in Pales- tine as long as almost any nation has lived in any country-longer than the British have lived in Bri- tain or the Americans in America

or the French in Franc

Under the benevolo

spotism of the Turks they enjoy certain Like measure of self-government." any other nation, their patriolic pride eventually chafed under this foreign rule and they rose against the Turks to assist General Allenby in the 1014-10 war.

Under the guidance of such off- cers as Colonel T. E. Lawrence, the

down

morn Turkish Arabs fled troops in their campaign than faced the British at Gaza,

They believed in the solemn pro- that they mises made by Britain would be granted independence un der the Peace Treaty.

1 cam

beliovo. that the reser

by Captala

ROY FARRAN

-with a. D.$,0. and a triplo M.G., Croix da

Guerre and American Legion of Merit, ho is,

at 26, one of the war's

most decorated soldiers.

cannot valion that the freedom of certain Arabs have a great digniffed cul- districts west of Damascus would ture. They are kind, generous peo- bo discussed later (in view of ple who will accept anyone in their French Interests) was meant to in- heine so long as the guest does not clude Palestine; which is over a abuse the rules of hospitality hundred miles to the south.

turning out the landlord.

DUNEASINESS

as a

more

05

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But this is not for want of trying, for they scheme without end.

In some of the larger Indeed, unions they have achieved, if not complete control, a very considerable measure of influence.".

Yet a little slumber on the part of the rank and file and Mr Pollitt and his friends will be able to use the unions as political pawns against the Government just as is happening in France today.

French trade unionists, suffering entirely allocated to them by the under their Communist controllers, may well say to their British com- United Nations.

redes: You have been warned..

the Jews Furthermore,

have evinced no desire to abandon their claim to a wider area, so that the Arabs cannot help but suspect that this will only be a slepping-stone to further expansion.

SUFFERING

must take

A

the

As

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is not surprising that the un- bridled abuse of Mr Attlee and Mr Bevin by the Comlaform Journal

resentment has aroused bitter Britain.

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apparent.

The

come fact that this campaign of villication goes on while the four Foreign Ministers are meeting is also, one imagines, not just a matter of chance.

If immigration is unrestricted the Jews will eventually want to over- Blow into the rest of Palestine. two years they have stepped up the the Araba see it, there can be no pressure with violence, propaganda, alternative`büf war." and mass Iminigration. Their openly create. D avowed_aim has been to Jewish majority in Palestine.

Americans not THE Chief Rabbi 1erzog has attempted to conceal his bellef that largest share of the blame.

criticised our the Promised Land should stretch in India, they have from Egypt to Iraq on both sides policy without accepting any of the responsibility or fully understanding

Soviet Russie, Indeed, seems to of the Jordan.

Small wonder that all the nations the local conditions.

Even if the Americans send arms prefer to cater the negotiating con- they will find it ference whirling a verbal knobkerrio of the Middle East regard aggressive Zionism

menace to their to aid the Jews,

This somewhat Hitlerlan fanision security! No longer is Judaism only dimeult to protect the oil supplies, rather than holding an olive branch. a religion to them; it is to be without which the Western world

cannot exist. If the Moslem world may be all right in the Balkans, but bellicose, regarded nationalistic race ejected into their reverts to an anti-foreigner attitude, it is not the British habit to suc-

!s nobody

to binme more than cumb to such an odd manifestation midst.

of a desire to co-operate, America. as The Arabs regard the British

7 the Western their only friends in

pray that the catastrophe might world. They have been grateful for yet be avoided by a prompt reversal the fact that all our premises have of the United. Nutions decision. The been eventually fulfilled, except in Jews

enough armed to MR HERBERT MORRISON

prised the House the other day the against regard to Palestine. But now they defend

feel that to beginning

all Palestinian Arab but It is doubtful by the spirited vigour of his defence

the of the House of Lords. forelguers are

hostile they can stand up against the or unjust

solid front of the entire Arab League.] It sounded as though any attempt ancient assembly Lanny of those Jews are refugees lo abolish that Three commissions have recently from the violence and persecution would be made over his dead body. In taking this stand I incline to have fled from debated their problem and produced of Europe. They

dis- Our master to an reports with a distinct Jewish bias, suffering

overpainted, oft-think that he, They have watched the principles of promised land, where more sulfer-ciplinarian, was guilty of party policy the Atlantic Charter, of government ing now awnits them, suffering heresy. according to the majority-will of caused by the stupidity of the Somewhere in the big book of the people, applied to other countries leaders who gave them encourage- words containing party resolutions I think it will be found that "aboli- all over

the world-but not to ment to migrate. Palestine. And now, in a tribunal If they die in Palestine, if the tion" was the decisive word applied of all the nations in the world, not a security of other Jews in Europe to the present Second Chamber.

But evidently such ruthlessness is single Western State (except Greece) is menaced by anti-Semitic feeling,

leaders are responsible. If now outmoded. Bow sullicient merit in the Arab case those

more had been

by

The Zionists as we know them

pro

towards them.

to vote against partition.

there

are well

themselves

moderate BO many

Even the boundaries suggested Weizmanns instead of were notoriously unfair. Jews only extremists, the war you read about might began to settle in the Negev lesson the front page today, than two years ago, but it has been never have 'happened.

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sur-

INOTE: "Candidus," whose Saturday commentary on current affairs is normally published on this page, is on holiday.]

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

were looking at one Interlude

He could find nothing here to sting.

thing.

of those miserable, down- Prednose: And where, pray, does But motor-cars. Poor thing. Pour URING the 1914-18 war the now Brst came to Palestine some in-the-mouth modern statues. all this get us?.

to 30 years ago as a peaceful religious and praising it. But I was Myself: Why, pray, it gets you Canape d'Hippopotame Arabs had certain cause

out of your little daily round for doubt our good intentions. The community; Gradually they began

of tho militant Russians revealed their knowledge to assert a claim to political inde-thinking

pendence in Palestine. They based statues that are like a trumpet- their claim on Biblical tradliloh, on call..

7 ahut my eyes and saw again the doubtful authority of a League of Nations Mandate, and on their superior Occidental knowledge.

a moment, and into a larger air. Cad's Meal

סוני

of consignmont THE second

rhinoceros ment has arrived at of a secret undertaking called the

the docks. Mrs Whelkstuffer, the Sykes-Pleat Treaty, whereby Lloyd George had parcelled out the Arabs

St. Joan on her horse, with banner THE soribus shortage of golf-balls Government culsing-chemist, has

at a famous course reminds me issued a fow hints as to cooking 1 countries of Iraq, Syria, and Pales tiae between the British and the

and sword, in front of the Golden of the man who used a meringue. It can be cooked whole in the open the first ten, and but it is botter blasted into French without Arab consent.

Their main claim (which they Llon inn. The statue is by Roulleau. It disintegrated

He then ate little bite by small charges of The excuse for keeping British troops In Palestine was to be the could apply equally well to Ireland and was put up in the year of my he was disqualiRed.

saw it from my window his clubs, which turned out to be sweetened gunpowder. One West or Italy) is that they are auch birth, and

End restaurant is already serving fostering of a national home for the wonderful husbandmen that they can the first time I ever came to Chinon. Worthing rock.

.Rhinoceros Von casserole maltre Jows. The Arab uneasiness was al- make better use of the infertile Arab tabelais in bronze is near by on

the

d'hotel, and Cassoulet. Toulousain a hen there is William Badger bites barmaid Inyed by denials and further pro- land than the natives.

A hard-boiled egg was converted la Limpopo. the Conqueror on his rearing horse

It al I believe that the Jews base their at Falaise, So this should be remembered-

stand?). Into a soft-bolled egg in six minutes Britain is now relieving herself of plans more on such industries as And Rouget de Lisle waving the by a new softening method at Tail-piece

of the Republic at Cleethorpes yesterday. terrible burdena burden impos- diamond cutting than in refertilising battle-hyran

Lons-le-Saunier, where he was bom.

(Nows item.) alble for any nation to bear but the desert, the polsonous flower was first Gradually, under the pressure of And Rude's status of Ney by the planted by us

fight from persecution in Europe, Closerie des Lilas up on the Ob- Epitaph

quay

Then

....

A cardinal principle of the Amb the Jewish Claims, became more servatory hill in Paris, where he Here in Detroit, to your surprist, creed and religion in hospitality, obviously nationalistic. In the last was shot. And a hundred, more. An old Kentucky horsa-fly lies.

IT is reported that the handful of I cretina who still assemble to ap plaud Cabinet Ministers on their arrival for meetings are striking for shorter hours."

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