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Page 19 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. Summer F umiture at Davison's is more than sturdy; it is graceful and comfortable—in keeping with the in creasing formality of the day. 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