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The Right to Weep
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Arab propagandists desirous of fan
ning racial and religious prejudice for
political purposes.
In justice to the British Labor Gov
ernment and to the leaders of the
Jewish Agency for Palestine it must
he admitted that they urged a speedy
settlement of the Wall issue by an im
partial Commission composed of citi
zens of countries that have neither
political nor economic interests in the
Near East. When Premier MacDon
ald appointed a distinguished Swedish
judge, a vice-president of the Court
of Justice of Geneva, Switzerland, and
a member of the States General of
the Netherlands, he was intent on
giving the Commission that very com
plexion of a strictly non-partisan, im
partial body. No wonder that the
Jewish Agency unhesitatingly pledged
itself to accept the findings of that
Commission. The Arab Executive,
however, fearful lest the settling of
the Wailing Wall issue would rob it
of so useful a political weapon, re
jected in advance the report to be
rendered, claiming, officially, that any
question affecting Moslem Holy
Places could be dealt with only by
competent bodies as prescribed by
Moslem religious law.
It took the Commission exactly one
year to investigate and study the
Wailing Wall issue. One month was
spent in Palestine, during which time
twenty-three sessions were held in
Jerusalem, examining Moslem and
Jewish evidence in connection with
the various claims advanced. Yet dur
ing all of last year the Arab leaders
did not give up their maneuvers of
spitefulness. For hundreds of years
no Moslem had ever been concerned
with the prayers of the Jews at the
Wailing Wall. Neither the Wall itself
nor yet the immediate patch of Tem
ple area at the top had had any spe
cial significance for Moslems. The
custom of centuries had established
the right of the Jews to worship. But
ever since the screen incident, despite
the appointment of the Commission,
Arabs began to convert the blind al
ley of the Wailing Wall pavement
into a thoroughfare, by building a
door into one of the houses which en
close the area. Worship before the
Wall thus could be—and was—inter
rupted by Arabs any time they felt
like it. Evidently they hoped to pro
voke Jerusalem Jewry to protest and
demonstrate physically against them.
Fortunately Palestine orthodox Jewry
showed an almost superhuman pa
tience—not as a matter of justice, but
as a matter of policy. The Jews real
ized that it would have been playing
into the hands of the Arabs if Jewish
ownership of the Wailing Wall were
made a sine qua non condition on the
political agenda of the Jewish repre
sentatives.
Today this issue has 'been settled.
While there is a feeling throughout
the Jewish world that a great relig
ious tradition has, to an extent, been
jeopardized for the sake of political
expediency, Jewish public opinion ac
cepts the report as one accepts the
inevitable—that is, philosophically. If
anything, there is genuine rejoicing
that the Wall controversy has been
removed from the realm of Arab
propaganda. Of course, the Arabs—as
the latest reports show—will do their
utmost to prolong the controversy and
revive the issue. It is too valuable an
item in their bag of tricks to be sur
rendered so easily.
Viewing the Wall controversy as
closed, however, one cannot but con
clude that notwithstanding the ad
judging of the property rights of the
Wall to the Moslems Jewish interests
have not lost by the decision of the
Commission. The right granted them
for free, undisturbed worship will
henceforth be safeguarded not merely
by a more or less reliable and more
or less friendly Palestine administra
tion but by the moral weight repre
sented by the League of Nations.
Copyright 1931 by S. A. F. S.
M. PAUL MAY, Belgium’s Jewish
envoy to Washington, paid a short
visit to the metropolis. He is reported
to have told the following little sig
nificant story: Years ago M. May
came to Washington as a young at
tache. He heard about the ultra-chic
Metropolitan Club, where old gentle
men ordered whisky-and-soda and
slept in leather armchairs. He wanted
to become a member. Indignant old
Tories stormed at the indignity of
such an affront. Who was May, any
how? “He’s a Jew,” they sneered. So
Mr. May’s application was discarded.
Today Jewish Ambassador May,
smart, well-groomed, worth many mil
lions, reputed a close friend of King
Albert, a social lion in Washington,
was indirectly asked whether his ex
cellency would like to become a mem
ber of the impregnable Metropolitan
Club. “Times do change,” the Jewish
ambassador is reported to have com
mented.
New York, N. Y.—It’s the wife who
decides where the husband shall be
buried, and not the mother who dis
poses of her son. That was the ruling
laid down by Justice Selah B. Strong
in the case of David Haber. Mrs.
Leah Haber, his 66-year-old mother,
claimed her son’s body when he died.
His wife, Mrs. Esther Haber, who as
serted that Haber had been a Presby
terian since their marriage, made
preparations for a Christian funeral.
But the mother contended that even
though her son had become a member
of the Presbyterian Church he had
faithfully observed all the Jewish
holidays and had come to his mother
on all feast days. She added that sev-
eral times he had requested that he
receive a Jewish burial. Justice
Strong, in rendering a decision,
pointed out that if Haber were buried
in a Jewish cemetery his wife’s body
would not be admitted into the same
cemetery when she died.
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