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[That Is ITrang With the Palestine
A dm in istra tion f
How Col. Lawrence’s Arab Scheme Blocks the Jewish Homeland
By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN
Never before in the history of
journalism has a writer spoken
so freely, so fearlessly ami so
frankly about the political diffi
culties which confront the build-
in!/ of the Jewish Homeland in
Palestine. Pierre l’an Paasscn,
noted non-Jewish foreinn corres
pondent of The New York live
ning World and of the Seven Arts
I'caturc Syndicate, exposes for
the first time Col. t.awrenee's
part in the political manocuvcring
of the Palestine administration
and tells us who puls the sand in
the Palestine machinery. In the
li</ht of the report of the Per
manent Mandates Commission of
the League of Nations the British
Memorandum, Pierre I an Paas-
sen's survey is highly illuminat
ing and revealin</.—The Editor.
One of the things which rouses my
indignation as I allow my mind to run
over the series of events in Palestine
since August, 1929, is the callous in
gratitude of the Palestinian British bu
reaucracy toward the Yishuv. For not
only do we see official anti-Jewish
chicancery and sabotage of the build
ing of the National Home continuing
as if the protests of a singularly unani
mous world-Jewry had never occurred,
hut no objective observer will deny,
in the light of recent happenings, that
the tempo of this undeniable under
hand and sullen opposition has actu
ally been accelerated. Yet when one
looks a little closer for the sources
and the mentality which inspire this
disregard of Jewish hopes and this
frustration of Jewish effort one soon
comes face to face with the remark
able fact that the group of factual ad
ministrators of the Palestinian Man
date has, to all intents and purposes,
remained unchanged since the days of
General Hols (administrator during the
war). The personnel, indeed, has un
dergone some modifications, but the
peculiar political conceptions enter
tained by the first British military au
thorities in Palestine have not veered
one iota in tendency; and this in spite
of the immense changes that have come
about in the social and economic con
dition of the country.
A great deal of the unsatisfactory
situation in Eretz Israel will be cleared
up when we realize that the men now
running affairs in Palestine look upon
the August outbreaks in the light of
an ample vindication of their own par
ticular theories of what the political
post-war reconstruction of the entire
Near East should have been, as against
—we still venture to hope—the real
plans and intentions of the Home Gov
ernment. In this respect they fully
conform to the views of Bols and
Storrs and the first British adminis
trators after the conquest. Most of
these officials, or at least the most
important among them, are men of
army extraction and of army mental
ity. They came to Eretz Israel from
Egypt, or elsewhere, in the Allenby
army. They were, moreover, from an
early date in the campaigns against the
Turks, imbued with and dazzled by the
ambitious scheme of Col. T. E. Law
rence, which consisted in the creation
of an Arabic confederacy running from
Anatolia to the Red Sea and from Per
sia to the Mediterranean shores. This
federation, Lawrence conjectured, was
to be placed under British suzerainty,
while the three sons of Hussein, the
Grand Sherif of Mecca—Abdullah,
Feisal and Ali—were to be rewarded
for their co-operation with thrones in
Damascus, Jerusalem, and Bagdad. T
am perfectly well aware that the Colo
nial office has made it clear on sev
eral occasions that there was never
any intention on its part to include
Palestine in this Pan-Arabian dream
castle, but in this respect the Colonial
office has gone flatly contrary to Law
rence’s expressed ambition and conse
quently to the hopes of that mysterious
gentleman’s numerous cronies — Bols,
Storrs, Roach, Saunders, etc. — who
have for years now ruled the roost in
Eretz Israel.
Before or about the time that Al
lenby set out on his victorious cam
paign through the Sinai Desert with
Suria as his ultimate objective, the
British Government, we know, had
concluded a bargain with the Zionists
in London. Extremely hard pressed as
she was on the Western front, Britain
could not afford to miss an opportu
nity to make an appeal for the moral
and material support of world Jewry.
The waning morale at home also
needed to be revived, as becomes clear
from Mr. Lloyd George’s remark to
General Wilson (chief of the general
staff), who asked him why he wanted
to take Jerusalem. Lloyd George is re
ported to have replied on that occa
sion: “It will please the Methodists!”
To run away with the notion that Brit
ain went into the Holy Land for the
greater glory of God Almighty, or to
meet the ancient nostalgia of the Jews
for their ancestral home, or, for that
matter, to gratify the sentiments of
the Welsh wizard’s Wesleyan constit
uents—a notion which seems to have
been fondly entertained at a time when
war-idealism and war-hysteria ran neck
to neck—is pure rubbish, of course, and
always was. It was a bid for support
—Jewish support first of all, but also
an appeal to the imagination of the
powerful evangelical Protestant bodies
in Anglo-Saxon countries and in Amer
ica. who still regard the return of the
Jew as a requisite essential for the
a new Year s
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um a day in your ice chest.
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Mill Work, Doors, Sash,
and Blinds
620 13th Street Phone 7ll
AUGUSTA, GA.
Thos. G. Brittingham
CONTRACTOR
Plumbing, Heating, and Drainage
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Kleen Heat Oil Burner
Automatic Iron Fireman
651 Broad Street Augusta, Ga.
R. E. Elliott
& Sous
Funeral Home
p r i v a t E
Ambulance Service
Corner Telfair and l welfth
Phone 1200 AUGUSTA. GA.
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AUGUSTA, GA.
Phone 2314 for Reliable Phot