Evening star., 1925-08-11
ARABS SEE JEWISH
MASSACRE COMING
End of Zionist Plan Is Only
Escape, Institute OF
Politics Is Told.
BY the Associated Press.

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. August
11.-Arab leaders in Palestine have
predicted that the Jews will either
lelinquish their Zionist movement
there or be eliminated by a general
massacre. Dr. William E. Rappard of
Geneva. a member of the League of
Nations permanent commission on
mandates. said at the Institute OF
Politics here today. He was address
ing a round table conference on the
Mediterranean area.
DIR. Rappard said the Jews i'll Pal
esti1e were en1phatically opposed TO
bolshevism. although they were devel-
oping agriculture on a eommunisttc
basis there. He declared that an in
ternational commission to govern
Palestine would be the worst kind
Of anarchy"
Other speakers testified 10 the bit
terness of the Arabs toward the jew
ish population and Zionism. Rev.
Marvin Nathan of Philadelphia as
serted. however, that the anti-JewiSh
feeling OF the Arab population of Pal
estine was on the wane. He pointed
out that the Jews possess only 8 per
cent of the arabic land in Palestine.
Indorses British Mandate.
President Harry A. Garfield OF Will
liams College indorsed the British ad-
ministratiOn of Palestine under the
present mandate as "a strong hand
that is keeping peace in the midst
of bitter religious animositieS." OF
the proposal for an international gov
erning commission. he said:
There are certain conditions which
Id Il
methods. Better an inferior captain
of the ship than a superior commits
sion to sail it"
The progress of the Zionist move
ment in Palestine was described by
DR.. Rappard. He recently made an
inspection trip in that region in con-
nection with the British mandate
there. The problems TO be faced. he
said. included limitation of immigra-
ton into the Jewish homeland, recon
citation of Jewish and Arab interests
and provision for d system of gov
ernment TO succeed the mandate on
its expiration.
These Zionists. coming mostly
from eastern Europe. have developed
agriculture with an astounding sue
cess" he said. They have estab-
lished agricultural schools and with
their unbounded energy and resources,
aided by the latest scientific knowl-
edge. are increasing their output
enormously every month.
The Jews are taking the greatest
pains TO establish good relations with
the Arabs, who form the majority of
the population. but are far behind the
Jews in progress and initiative. The
Arab race is really being appropriated,
little by little. and this is a problem
which only the future can settle.
Faith in Dawes Plan.
The business men of the world have
faith in the Dawes plan for German
repara tionS c. J. c. Quinn. manager
of the American section of the In
ternational Chamber of Commerce.
said at a round-ta conference of
the Institute of Politics today.
Business men have confidence in
the successful solution of the prob
lem of transferring large -interna-
tional payments across frontiers" he
said. They believe that a general
increase in the present restricted
volume of world trade. with Germany
and other nations sharing therein,
will permit normal transfers on
large scale without upsetting the
German budget and currency and
industry and foreign trade of the
creditor nations"
The steady stream of immigrants
to this country is proving the rule
that such inComers are substitutions,
not additions, it was said at the same
conference. by Warren S. Thomp-
son, director of the Scripps Founda-
ton for the Study of Population
Problems. immigration acts to re-
duce the birth rate through speed
ing up industrialization and urban
ization, he said.
Thus immigration acts directly or
indirectly to reduce the birth rate
of the older stock in the first in
stance and of the immigrant stock
in the second generation and later"
he added.
Dependent on Asia.
The fate of the universe rests with
America or Asia and no longer with
the European races, Felix Valyi of
Paris, editor of the Revue Politiuue
International, said in a lecture at the
Institute of Politics last night He
said:
"On the one hand is America,
stiff1y frozen into her religious and
her social traditions, and on the other
Asia, in full efferyescence of the new
ideas and new sentiments.
THE existence of mankind con-
LluuSS 10 uepeHd upon ASIA, from the
economic standpoint, for without the
raw materials of the Asiatic continent
the OcCident cannot live.
1T is necessary that some one take
the initiative of approaching Islam
in a new spirit of cooperation with
a view TO reconciling Christianity and
Islam. To have Western civilization
an act of faith toward Asia is neces-
s;u'y. From now on the only pos
sible conquests of the Asiatic conti-
nent are moral ConuueStS"