Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-30
San International SHAMELESS"


At last nights great and impressive
mass meeting of Jewish protest in New
York, Senator Borah, principal speaker
of the evening, voiced forcefully and
eloquently the boundless indignation
of the American people over the hor-
rors of which Palestine is now the
scene. At the same meeting a message
from President Hoover was read, ex-
pressing a thought not likely to pass
unnoticed in London-viz., the convic-
ton that tout of these tragic events
will come greater security and greater
safeguards for the future" That is
about as plain a hint as the head OF
one friendly government can give to
another, that the former expects the
latter to mend its ways. The ways in
this case are the British administrative
methods-or lack thereof-which have
eventuated in the revolving episodes of
the past week in the Holy Land.
Genuinely as the American people,
and civilized peoples everywhere, hope
for better days in Palestine, they are
constrained to wonder, with Senator
Borah. whether anything but re-
current international shambles" Is,
or ever can be, in prospect in Palestine.
The chairman of the Senate foreign re-
lations committee charges that the
grave problem of establishing Jewish
national home has never been thought
all the way through. In so many words,
Mr.. Borah asserts that that Herculean
task has not been properly measured
by those assuming the obligations
necessarily arising" The Senator's
reference is jointly to Great Britain,
as the Palestine mandatory power, and
to world Jewry.
The Idahoan, who makes no conceal
ment of his sympathetic interest in
Jewrys nationalistic longings, tempers
his approval of them with some eX-
ceedingly practical suggestions. He
cautions Zionists to have a greater
heed for the rights and the suscepti-
bilities of the Overwhelmingly more
numerous Arab population of Palestine.
THE Arab people," said Senator Borah
In Madison Square Garden last night,
ARE resourceful in war, indefatigable
In purpose and imbued with national
spirit which at times partakes of fanat-
icism. To deal with such situation
there must in the beginning be an
understanding, there must be some
definite arrangement, some definite
program. You cannot simply ignore
the fact that these people are there and
that they have the views that they
have. A policy of drift means mis-
understanding, and misunderstanding
means, especially when mixed with in
capable local officials, massacres, and
means the murder of women and chill
dren."
Having limited thus directly at what
Is undoubtedly the fundamental cause
OF strife, Senator Borah declared the
time has come for interested Ameri-
can citizens" to inquire whether Pales-
tine In future is to be "a national home |
or an international shambles." He very !
specifically suggested that unless there |
is a "clear-cut understanding between
the country's 100000 Mohammedan |
Arbas and its comparative handful Of
$4,000 or 100000 national home" Jews,
the outlook for tranquility in Palestine |
is far from promising. Mr.. Borah |
therefore urges all concerned to waste i
no energy in bewailing the past or the |
present, but to concentrate their in
genuity resolutely upon the future.
If they do not do so, the peril that |
all Palestine will become Wailing Wall, |
not only for Jews, but for civilized |
mankind, will be an enduring one.