Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1921-12-08

of Jerusalem seem to be tulnlled.
'"Today the city stands midway between the hor-
rorS of the Turkish regime and the promised good
of the British mandatory rule. Nothing has been
done as vet in public way to beautify the city.
North and west the houses Straggle outside the
walls; ON the south forbidding slopes border the
road to Bethlehem; and on the east lies the ter
rble valley of JChoshaphat-a valley Of dry bones.
Seventeen times DIES troyed-btterly hated
anXoUsly sought-how desperate a history since
Acknowledgement captured it more than twenty-five
centuries ago.
"Rcdccmed today, but in her nakedness, Jerusa-
lem waits to be clothed. She has yet no grace,
no covering for her ugly wounds, Some day her
sides will gisten with the brightness of heaven
Iy radiance she will be washed and anointed like
a bride waiting for the bridegroom"
The prophetic part of this is written, of course,
in Oriental imagery. Sir Herbert Samuel the Brit
ish high commissioner puts the situation in plain
English and says, in his report to parliament:
"Undeyeloped and underpopulated Palestine has
possibilities Of far more prosperity than the stand
ard attained before the war;
And Paesttne's future is the concern of half the
world Christian, jew and Mosem in Pales
tine holy land 1t is most interesting stua-
ton that is being worked out under our very eyes
1t is an obvious chance for the punster Palestine
is indeed the promised Land" To whom is it
promised? That is what Jew, Arab and Christian
in Palestine are asking of the British government.
The British government replies that under the
mandate there will be complete freedom and equal
ity for all religions and equal justice for all,
CARELESS Of religion, race or position
Sir Herbert's report to parliament makes inter
esting reading, some Of which must be done be-
tween the lines Concerning the policy followed
under the mandate he says:
THE policy Of His Majestys British govern
ment conemplates the satisfaction of the
legitimate aspirations of the Jewish race through
out the world In relation to Palestine, combined
with a full protection of the rights of the existing
population.
For my own part am convinced that the means
can be found to effect this combination. The Zion
ism that is practicable is the Zionlsm that fulGls
this essential condition
at is the clear duty of the mandatory power to
promote the well-being Of the Arab population, in
the same way as a British administration would
regard it Its duty to promote the welfare of
the local population in any part Of our empire
The measures to foster the well-beng of the Arabs
should be precisely those which should adopt
in Palestine if there were Zionist question, and
If there had been no Balfour declaration
There is in this policy nothing incompatible with
reasonable Zionist aspirations.
"On the contrary, If the growth Of Jewish In
fluenCe we're accompanied by Arab degradation,
or even by neglect to promote Arab advance
ment, it would fail in one Of It's essential pur-
poses.
'The grievance Of the Arab would be disCredit
to the jew, and in the result the moral influence
of Zionism would be gravey impaired.
simultaneously there must be satisfaction OF
that sentiment regarding Palestine-a worthy and
ennobling sentiment-whiCh, in increasing degree,
animates the Jewries of the world.
"The aspirations Of these 14OOO,OOO of people
also have a right to be considered. They ask
for the opportunity to establish home In the
land which was the political and has always been
the religious center Of their race They ask that
this home should possess national characteristics
in language and customs in intellectual inter
ests In religious and political institutions.
"Ths is not to say that Jewish immigration Is
to involve Arab emigration, that the greater pros
perity of the country through the development Of
Jewish enterprises, is to be at the expense anc
not to the benefit Of the Arabs, that the use Of
Hebrew is to imply the disappearance of Arabic
that the establishment Of elected councils In the
Jewish community for the control Of It's affairs Ii
to be followed by the subsection of the Arabs t
the rule Of those councils.
'In word the degree to which Jewish natlona
aspirations can be fulfilled in Palestine Is condi