Evening star., 1923-07-06
BY THE MARaUIsE DE FoNTENoY

Zionism, which is frowned upon by
SO many Of the most enlightened Jews
on both sides of the Atlantic as impol-
itic and impractical, has received a
severe setback in the Holy Land. For
the efforts to convert it into q Jewish
state and national home for the en-
tire Jewish race have failed.
An attempt was made by the British
high commissioner, Sir Herbert Samuel,
protesting Jew, to transform the
country into a self-governing depend
ency, by the grant of a constitution
contrived on the most up-to-date Euro
pean fashion. But to begin with, the
Arabs and native Christians were in an
overwhelming majority, and owing to
the favoritism which Sir Herbert Sam
uel had displayed in bestowing most of
the administrative Offices and dignities
upon Jews, to the exclusion Of the peo-
pie of all other faiths, they declined to
accept the constitution or to take part
in the election. In fact. they literally
boycotted Sir Herbert Samuel, his gov
ernment. the Zionists. and also the
Russian Jewish syndicate of Gutenberg,
upon whom Sir Herbert had bestowed
the monopoly of all water power and
electricity in the Holy Land.
A deadlock ensued which has resulted
in the British crown suspending indefi-
nitely the constitution of an elective,
self-govefning government in Palestine
and its conversion into what for the
present will be a crown colony At the
same time Sir Herbert Samuel has
been summoned home to London to
explain the complete failure of his
administration. and it is not expected
that he will return. He is held to
have acted throughout with a de-
plorable lack OF Judgment. tact and
diplomacy, and to have aroused the
of Palestine by his pronounced Zion
list partisanship. The Gutenberg mo-
nopoly. by reason of native opposi-
ton, has proved unworkable.
connection with Palestine, where
friendlier feelings among the natives
may be restored by a Christian and
more impartial governor, constitutes
much needed lesson to Egypt If
the latter does not become more
amenable to reason than she has
shown herself during the past twelve
months, in spite of all the conces-
sions made by England. the latter
Will be obliged to adopt the same
course as she has taken in the case
Of Palestine. That Is to say, repeal,
by order of King Georges privy
council. of the grant of provisional
independence and self-government,
which had been so mistakenly be-
slowed on the Egyptians by Eng
land, and the resumption of her mas
terry of the land of the Nile" through
the autocratic but beneficent and SEN
sible rule of British plenipotentiary
like Lord Cromer and Lord Kitch-
ener. There appears to be no other
alternative.
Frances republican regime has
just lost one of it's most determined
adversaries through the death of the
sexagenarian widow of the late Mar
quis Charles de Mcmahon. She was
the species of connecting link with
the conservative royalist element and
of the party which is headed by Leon
Daudet, son of the famous novelist,
and represented by the daily Paris
newspaper known as the Action
Franchise. Indeed. she was one of
the principal supporters and financial
hackers of the Action Franchise. 1t
was because the latter occasionally
the republican government, much
further than the responsible leaders
of the royalist party wished to go,
that she felt 1t necessary to resign
the presidency of the organization
known as the Danes Royalists of
France" which she had held for
number Of years.
She was not a beauty, and singu-
larly careless about her appearance,
invariably arrayed in a loosely made
black gown. She was tall and angu-
lar and, unmeasured and passionate
in her public utterances, conveyed
somewhat the Impression of a fanatic,
especially when she got onto the sub
ject of the Jews. She was so in
tense in her anti-Semiticism that
she saw Jewish intrigue in every
thing, and was wont to preach in
favor of the restoration of the
French monarchy, with a court from
W hich all Jews and Jewesses, whether
of race or creed. would be vigorously
barred. She was very unhappy in
her married life. Her husband, the
late Marquis Charles de Mcmahon, a
granddaughter of Marshal Mcmahon.
becoming involved in all sorts of
scandals, financial and otherwise.
The marchioness was the daughter
of the late Marquis de Vogue, cele-
brated as a member of the Academy
Of France, as a diplomat, as a his