Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31
American Sympathy Shown
For Britain as Well as Jews

another permanent burden ON the For
eign Once. While less perilous than
the Indian or the Egyptian problem, It
will be one far more didlcult TO cope
with In terms Of principles"
"H h true" remarks the st. Louis
Globe Democrat, that If Jews In thu
country have employment while Arabs
have not, Jewish money supplies tbs
employment. It Is true that If the Jews
there enjoy other advantages Arabs do
not have, they are advantages that
would never have existed or been missed
but for Jewish initiative. Nevertheless,
the depression felt all around the world
has affected small Palestine. Even the
United States IL discouraging irnmigra-
ton In every way for which new legal
excuses can be found. The milistry's
statement Is manifestly Influenced by
the data and impressions of an excep-
tional time, but unfortunately has Moth
ing indicating that, with modification
In present conditions, reason would e1-
ist for modifying dispositions that may
also be considered temporary. The min
tStry9 statement Is not the last word.
Under brighter skies, with strife ended,
we may believe that the Zionist move
ment on some natural scale, restricted
by such prudent bounds as its own
necessities may impose as the years
pass, viii 60 on and on, bringing pros
perity and continuing satisfaction 10
TT most beloved Of earthly areas"
The Cleveland News holds that poll
tics should be no excuse for Reputation
OF o pledge making Palestine the homo
Of the Jews" while the st. Paul Dis.
patch believes that "in an effort 70
please both Arabs and Jews England
has succeeded only In arousing the
wrath Of both" On the subject Of imA
migration the Springfield Republican
states: There Is not work enough IN
Palestine at this time TO employ all the
inhabitants who need work To receive
more immigrants, Of whatever race or
races. would obviously be to add to the
open only to Jews sufficient in number
to provide for all who would come I'm.
der . policy Of unrestricted immigra-
ton"
"Supposing Palestine to be a true
Jewish homeland" argues the Newark
Evening News, at must be self-sup-
porting. just 10 people the country
with Jews drawn from Germany, Rus
STA. England, America and the other
sitting the scheme, practically and
Realistically. What took centuries to
undo cannot be rebuilt In a decade. 1t
Is not pastoral poem that is being
built In Palestine, but a country Of
bricks and fields, mortgages and side
walks, concrete and steel"
1.-THE mistake made In promising con-
dicting national states cannot now be
rectified," in the opinion Of the New
York Evening Post. 1.-THE only course
Great Britain can follow Is one of COM
promise, in which, under the terms of
the mandate conferred by the League Of
Nations, the greatest possible considera.
ton is given to the rights of both Jews
and Arabs. II the balance has swung
too far one way, as the report of Sir
John Hope Simpson has indicated, there
is nothing for England to do but at
tempt to redress it. It Is a thankless
task. England cannot succeed without
Jewish-Arab cooperation. But It is
time that American and English Jewry
recognized the realities of the Palestine
situation and appreciated the dificul-
ties Of the position in which England
finds herself"