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,ds no further elaboration
,.rding the Jewish people, be-
t lie world, the standing of
in the liberation of Eretz
, subsequently permitting the
I, wish Legion and the Zion
rps to be incorporated in the
forces, the London Govern-
•riously disturbed the basis of
Lawrence scheme. When next
the Balfour Declaration, with the
it held out to the Jewish people
.,, r the establishment of a National
Home, vague as the term might be and
t any precedent or significance
ilut-oever in international jurispru
dence. the Lawrence party in the Near
l a-tern army saw their pipe-dream
evaporating, as it were, before it had
e to grow into reality. For it meant
mid he left out of the proposed Pan-
\ral>ic confederacy once the Turk was
much, at any rate, that Palestine
•listed and peace established in the
• •Id Ottoman domains. Whether or not
Arab chiefs have ever been for-
a!h promised by London that Pales
tine would in fact become a part of
r Federation of Arabic States will
e known so long as the Colonial
■ffid- persists in its ominous refusal
publish tlie secret correspondence
n tlie subject between King Hussein
d the British diplomatic representa-
in the Near East, General Mac-
Mahmi.
there can be no reasonable doubt
. however, that the British mili-
authorities in the Near East dan-
i entirely different bait before
win and his royal sons than that
ironcs in dusty old Amman and
\a> Bagdad. The sons of Hus-
duritig the “Revolt in the Des-
1 r ' we know, had their eyes defi-
ni,,, l' "\ed on Damascus and Jerusa-
nd it was for nothing less than
omdrous prize that they brought
du and Arab tribes in line on
> right flank. Would the Arab
we may well ask. have fought
and massacred as they did if they had
known that Syria and Lebanon would
be handed over to France and that
Palestine was to be turned into a Jew
ish National Home? A child can see
they would not.
The arrival of the Jewish Legion in
Egypt, therefore, must have put a se
rious crimp in the plans of the Law-
rence-men in Allenby’s army. How,
indeed, could they explain its presence
and the objective of a Jewish Legion
to their Arabic allies? Lawrence says
somewhere in bis “Revolt in the Des
ert” that if the foreign office and its
bureaus bad kept each other informed
of how things actually stood in the
Near East the British reputation of
honesty would never have become the
object of the attacks to which it was
later subjected. He is talking here of
unofficial promises made to the Arabs,
of hopes held out to Abdullah and
Feisal and their powerful cousin, Sherif
Shakir—hopes that underwent a first
withering blast with the injection of
the Jewish Legion on the scene.
General Bols, however, did his best
at once to save the compromised situa
tion. that is to say, the Arabic dream.
He made a secret proposal to the com
mander of the Jewish Legion to turn
that unit in a non-combative labor out
fit. This would have kept the Legion
in Egypt, and thus away from Jerusa
lem. Therewith the Arab chieftains
would have been mollified. For a Jew
ish “navvy” outfit across the Suez
Canal obviously constituted no menace
to their ambitious reveries. However,
the commander of the Jewish Legion
and Vladimir Jabotinsky told Bols
plainly that they intended to go to the
front and participate in the capture of
Jerusalem. World Jewry expected no
less.
And so it happened. But Bols was
not through yet with saving what Law
rence calls the “British reputation of
honesty”. He rushed through the de
mobilization of the Legion at a time
when the country was far from paci
fied. He still hoped, in spite of the
Balfour Declaration and Jewish re
joicing throughout the world, to give
one or more of his Arabic friends the
spoils of war which he had held out
to them at Jedda on the Red Sea be
fore the campaign started. Storrs
backed him. So did the officers who
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