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The Southern Israelite
lirst place, *most concerned with the
n of Jewish protests over the
te Paper, which broke most
ntly at Geneva and in the United
s v A second reason is that genial
l'n e Arthur" knows and sympathizes
, the Zionists more than any other
or of the Labor Cabinet. The
Minister, and even the much
inced Lord Passfield, may have a
r knowledge of the theory of
nism, but the practical “Uncle
:hur" knows best the human material
the movement. As Secretary of the
il.or Party he has come in direct
ntact with the Laborite Zionists, and
is more sensible than the others to
Slated to Resign
i
LORD PASSFIELD
lnMstent rumors from London predict
l.<*rd Passfield’s resignation from the
"nice of Secretar yof State for the
1 "Ionics, as a resutl of Premier Mac-
ihinadl’s lette rto Doctor Weizmann
reversing the policy the Labor peer
the blow sustained by the I^abor Party
and the Socialist movement as a whole
because of the Government stand on
the White Paper. To Mr. Henderson
Zionism is not a theoretical abstrac
tion relating to Palestine but a real
movement of living human beings on
he spot, in Whitechapel, Mile End and
Stepney. What is more, he under
stands these people and sympathizes
v *ith them. It is common knowledge
that he was much displeased by the
spirit of hostility of the White Paper
and that he threw himself whole-
• artedly into the task of putting right
v niistake that had been made. He
' ably assisted by Mr. Craig Aitch-
n, who has the Scotsman’s natural
mpathy of the Bible and for the
and the People of the Book,
n the Jewish side, Dr. Chaim Weiz-
■ n undoubtedly dominated • the
iations. His chief lieutenant was
Harry Sacher, the noted British
'al of the Manchester School, who
chow manages miraculously to
alive in this age the spirit of
vht and Cobden.
ls to these four men—Henderson,
Atchinson, Weizmann and Sacher
the Palestine Round-Table Con-
e owes whatever success has at-
it, and it is to them that the
aking which has been reached
They met frequently, discussed
-w-ish objections to the White
point by point, and with infinite
patience and mutual understanding
hammered out all the differences until
they came to a satisfactory agreement.
The other members of the Committee
met at five plenary sessions, first to
listen to a long and masterly statement
on the situation by Dr. Weizmann and
finally to discuss and to approve the
results achieved by the four. The at
titude of the British negotiators, in
cluding Lord Passfield himself, was
throughout most sympathetic. Their
extreme courtesy and eagerness to
understand and to meet the Jewish
point of view went a long way to elimi
nate Jewish suspicions and to bring
about the desired understanding. On
January 30th, when Mr. Henderson
had returned from Geneva after the
session of the League of Nations
Council, the Palestine Round-Table
Conference held its last plenary ses
sion to confirm the final agreement
on all points. The new document was
then submitted for approval to the
Cabinet and to the High Commissioner
in Palestine, and it was then issued
as the authoritative interpretation of
the White Paper.
Of all the Round-Table Conferences
arranged by the present administration
—and the Labor Government seems to
have a definite predilection for this
method of solving its problems—this
one on Palestine was probably the most
successful, considering its initial limita
tion. It could not by its very nature be
a complete success, because the prob
lem in Palestine is triangular and only
two of the sides concerned met. It is
obvious that a radical solution of the
difficulties in Palestine requires a Con
ference with the participation of the
Arabs. The Government as well as the
Zionists—those at least who partici
pated in the negotiations—realized this
fact, and for that reason they have
agreed to an extension of the negotia
tions to include the larger and more
fundamental problems of Palestine, in
conjunction with the Arabs. Like the
Indian negotiations, this gathering too
was only to pave the way for bigger
and more complete negotiations to
stabilize the situation in Palestine for
years to come. It is only in so far as
these second negotiations will have been
brought to a favorable conclusion that
the present negotiations can be con
sidered successful.
But even on their own merits these
negotiations have a definite success to
record, and this is the very clear and
unmistakable improvement which they
are bound to bring about in the rela
tions between the Jews and the British.
These were, admittedly, not of the best
since the Palestine riots of 1929. The
negotiations have cleared the air and
have removed the intangible psy
chological misunderstandings between
the two peoples even more than the
political misunderstandings. The bit
terness against England which had ac
cumulated in the Jewish world during
the last eighteen months has disap
peared, and the cloud which threatened
to obscure the traditional English-
Jewish friendship has passed. In these
days of rising anti-Semitism this in
itself is worth all the trouble and
anxiety of these and of many other
negotiations.
Copyright 1931 by S. A. F. S.
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