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The Southern Israelite Page 45 second i of Tak as a k.: more ' shopkci the ! after 1 of the I* nated, ; her < Hy a- partner- Nraei. !• Mule t Mk til^ nient ,,g of Christ. Britain’s need as a link in the empire, of defense for Suez and, rtant still to a nation of as a point d’appui to tap Near East commercially, Germanic rival overland the same direction hy way _. f ]ad railway should he elimi- ,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 (Continued <>n Page 47) “A Little Saved Is A Little Earned” There is no better way to save for a rainy day or begin to lay a foundation for a home than the Building and Loan way We Solicit Your Membership Progressive Building & Loan Association 222 Princess ■ N. HARRISS, President Wilmington, N. C. O. E. TODD, Secy-Trea*. The Home of Thrift THE SOUTHERN COTTON OIL CO. MANUFACTURERS OF Cotton Seed Products High Crude Fertilizers AUGUSTA, GA. HULSE LAUNDRY “Just a Good One” A. H. 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