Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-04
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live Jewish opinion, 1.-THE opinion iof
Lloyd George and Gen. Snuts,F the
gurvfV1ng members of the British war
cabinet responsible for the Balfour
declArataon, have protested. Baldwin,
Chamberlain and Amery have declared
that b appears to them ito conflict not
only With the insistence of the Council
Of the League of Nations that 1t would
Be contrary to the intention of the
mandate If the Jewish national home
were crystallized at its present stage OF
development, but with the whole spirit
Of the Balfour declaration and of the
statements made by successive govern
naents In the last II years
Churchill, the author of the White
Paper of 1922, which Lord Passf1eld
proporbs TO follow, has openly repudi-
9ted the White Paper of 1880. The
leaders of the British bar, Sir John
Simons and Lord Hailsham, the former
lord chancellor, have found 1t in con-
6ict with the mandate
Paying lip service to the idea Of the
Jewish national home, the White Paper
Of 1880 in reality attempts to reduce
the so-called double undertaking of the
British government under the mandate
to the Jewish people, on the one hand.
and to the non-JewiSh population, on
taking, namely, that of promoting the
interests Of the inhabitants Of Rales-
tine, both Arabs and Jews" Such an
Interpretation would deprive the Pales-
tine mandate of meaning.
Analysed by Churchill.
Churchill, who himself had respon-
edbilits for Palestine at the colonial
once. has analysed the whole matter
with great clearness:
'aThe two obligations are indeed OF
equal weight but they are different IN
character The first obligation is posi-
tive and creative; the second obhgatlon
A safeguarding and conciliatoFy.
"Our mandatory obligations toward
the Jews throughout the world who
helped us, and toward Palestine Arabs
who were the conscript soldiers OF our
Turkish enemy, are both binding, and
we are bound both to preserve in estab-
hshment of the Jewish national home
and Ia safeguarding the civil and re-
Iieiuus rights of Arabs.
Merely to sit still and avoid friction
with Arabs and safeguard their civil
and religious rights and to abandon the
positive exertion for the establishment
Of the Jewish national home would not
be 3 faithful Interpretation OF the man
date. -.
4u1I NI4CL nc WAAOO0 a. WIZ 49," 49,
3Tt is clear from the wording of this
article that the population OF Palestine
and not any sectional interest, Is to De
the object Of the governments care.
Obligations Outlined.
s-rhe essence of the BaIfour declara-
Tim IN 1917; and the intention OF the
mandate In 1919 was that the sectional
interest of the Jews in the establish
xneuf of their national home was TO De
the object Of the governments care,
and in the words of the article, the
mandatory power assumed responslni-
ttY for bringing about the political, az
uoinSstrative and economic conoltaons
which would secure the establishment
Of the Jewish national home.
sslgo one could claim that the British
nation Is bound for all time, irrespective
of events or of their own physical ana
moral strength to pursue the policy OF
establishment of the jewish natlonaf
ssJsIrt from the moment that we rec
ownize and proclaim that we have de-
TSarted from these undertakings and are
rersrdinx the Zionist cause as 3 mere
anccnvenient incident in the colonial
o<lce administration Of Palestine, we
ere hound to return our mandate Co the
League Of Nations and forego the stra-
mxa9hng from the British control OF, and
m8soClRtiun with, the Holy Land"
Iord Passneld has read out OF the
Ssaaudafe all substantial meaning from
e9ae unandatory's obligation In regard to
the establishment Of the Jewish ma
SsonaI home He draws picture Of the
impoverished fellaheen IN Palestine, and
IeGves the conclusion inevitably to be
drawn that the Arab cultivator has been
OG1gked from his land by the Jew.
One would hardly suspect that every
Gzlnan Of land now owned by Jews has
been most handsomely paid for, and
that the fellahegn's lot Is certainly bet
ter than It was before the Jews came,
and much better because the jews
came, than his brothers. In Transjor-
danta, from which the Jews have been
excluded. One would not even suspect
this from the reading Of Lord Passfeld's
biased text
Work Made BY Jews.
Because there Is unemployment in
Palestine and q suspicion exists which
may be plausibly represented to be
well founded" that this unemployment
may be due to Jewish immigration,
whether such Is the fact or not, Lord
PaSsfeld apparently considers good
ground for stopping further immigra-
ton. That the immigrants come to take
IN work created ny Jewish capital that
1Soked. Indeed, he objects that the
Jewish national home Is to be built by
Jewish labor He apparently wants Jew
Aih capital and enterprise to build ul
4he; land for non-Jews
STl,sle fvIto fI1e 5iscard noes not oYIy