Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-09
Americans Differ in Dispute
Between League and Britain

The criticism which the commission
of the League of Nations directed
against British administration in Pales-
tine serves as a text for a variety of
comment. 1t is generally agreed that
responsible authorities should have fore
seen the conflict between the Arabs and
the Jews and that there should have
been better police protection, but the
chief issue for discussion seems to be
whether the country holding the man
date has any. duty that Is not shared
with the chief authority. which is the
League itself.
"The commissions report" In the
Judgment Of the Rochester Times
Union, should do two things, close OBJ
servers believe. It should set a prece-
dent in calling mandatory nation to
account regarding its responsibilities in
inundated country, and, secondly, 1t
should virtually lead the League itself
to take more seriously the position Of
minority peoples in inundated regions"
"Great Britain has had such long ex-
perience in imperial rule" says the
Muncie Star, and in observing the
trend Of the Eastern mind that 1t should
have realized the error OF weakness or
hesitation in an emergency. If it was
caught mapping at the time of the Arab
outbreak, however it is not likely to be
guilty of a similar mistake again. There
seems little reason to doubt that Lon
don is honestly endeavoring to redeem
its pledge of Self-government made to
the Arabs and to establish homeland
for the Jews in accordance with the
promises of the Balfour declaration"
The New York Sun, advising that
''Britons hare been brought face to face
with understanding of the fact that In
adhering to the League they signed
away an appreciable fraction Of their
sovereign freedom" points out that 1.-The
League proceeds as a principal rebuklng
a subordinate" and continues: This
does not make the reproof uttered by
the Leagues mandaec commission easier
for Britons to bear. They are not
habituated to Gliding by a superior
power: 1t viii hurt their pride. More
important than I :, the words o. the
places and there impair the prestige Of
Great Britain, which for generations
has believed and has proclaimed that,
though in the detail of ruling dependent
peoples 1t might err, its purposes and
practices in this difacult business were
generally far more generous and uli-
mately more effective than those applied
by any other power. Subject peoples
already in disorder may be stimulated
the commissions findings"
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Considering the question as entirely
free from any international causes of
friction. the Philadelphia Evening Bull
letin finds that "the tone OF the British
reply shows that the accusations sting.
If England cannot break down the force
of the commission charges as to its
laxity in defending the threatened
zionists, it Is entitled to plead that the
commission minimizes the difficulties of
satisfying racial elements whose objec-
tives and claims seem in direct Apo
sition." That pape~ continues: ION
its face, the report bears the indication
Of impartiality and disregard OF politi-
cal considerations. Half of its member
ship of ten is composed Of nationals of
co-workers holding mandates-Great
Britain, France, Belgium, Portugal and
Japan. II their action were controlled