Evening star., 1945-05-23
Letters to The Star
Readers Disagree With Opinions
of Writer on Palestine.

10 the 6uitor Oh Inc othrs
The current ciche of the younger
generation "out of this world" aptly
characterizes Eric Underwood's letter of
May II. Volumes have been written on
the Palestine question by all parties, in
cluding several Royal Commission re-
ports and an assortment of white
papers," but challenge Mr.. Underwood
to cite a single authority which has at
tributed the renascence of Palestine to
any source other than Jewish. That Is
what Dorothy Thompson meant when
she referred to the success of Palestine
creating an issue.
The colonial Office controls other ter
ritorieS throughout the world but where
have they shown comparable results?
TranS1ordania was part Of Palestine
before it was "partitioned" by the British
to pay off a duplicate promise made in
secret The British still have special
interests" there but Jews are for the
most part excluded. The result is that
the Arabs in Transjordania are in the
same condition today as they were
under Turkish rule, which is a partial
explanation of the immigration of Arabs
into Palestine referred to by Mr.. Under
wood. Arabs in Palestine have bettered
their lot under the impact of the produc-
tivity of Jewish development and Arabs
from the surrounding territories who
wish to engage in agriculture have been
quick to take advantage of unrestricted
Arab immigration.
No British capital has gone into
Palestine except as protected British
investment at which the British are not
unskilled. Mr.. Underwood's inference
that the reason the British stay there
is merely to protect the Jews calls for
no continent. His statement that Pales-
tine is colony and the argument based
thereon is, of course, untenable. The
British are in Palestine as trustees
under a treaty signed by So nations in
Guiding the United States, the terms Of
which are to facilitate the establishment
Of Jewish national home in Palestine
The British performance under this
trust has been to restrict immigration
at time when Palestine was the only
possible place of refuge for the hapless
Jews of Hitler's Europe. 1t is no exag-
geration to say that tens OF thousands
Of Jews whose ashes are in German in
Generators would be living normal
healthful lives in Palentine today If
Britain had not slammed shut the
escape gate and left the victims to be
destroyed by the German beasts.
TOBIAS NAFTALIN.
To the Editor of The Star:
Re letter by Eric Underwood. May IT:
Arab and Jew have lived in peace
under the Turkish sultans
There was no bar to Jewish immigra-
tion; doubts about its advantages kept
them out
was, and is, despite British rule that
colonization succeeded.
Jews were sold the driest, barren land,
but with the desperation of necessity
they irrigated, worked from dawn to
dusk, made the desert bloom.
Neither the other dominions nor Brit
ish capital supported Palestine's econ
omy, but taxes-Jews, 80 per cent:
Arabs, 20 per cent
The Arabs emigrated from the sur
rounding states to take advantage Of
the first decent wages. housing, schools,
hospitals they ever had-built with
Jewish capital. 1t is not the worker
Arab but the employer who doesn't
want the Jews. With British backing
they are articulate. JENNIE OKUN.
Total Destruction Demanded
To the Editor of The Star:
If America is to survive, Japan must
be destroyed. Even as Cato repeatedly
warned Rome against Carthage, so now
the press must warn our people again
and again.
Make no mistake about it, We are In
war to the death. At the end, only
one can live. Premature peace would
bring a CHASTITY interlude-a calm at
the center of a typhoon-until the
storm should burst upon us more
dreadfully than ever. And next time
we might not win. Japan must be de-
stroyed.
There can be no compromise with
those subhuman flends. Earth is too
small for that Ultimately either we or
they shall perish. Their islands must
be isolated. bombed, burned and starved
until the Japs are exterminated. God
help us If we turn soft
Cruel and ruthless? What would the
Japs have done to us and our families
had they invaded the United States?
prisoners now? Our people have no
alternative. If America is to survive,
Japan must be destroyed
CHETWOOD T. SCHWARZKOPF.
San Francisco, Calf.
Thinks Nobody 'Peace.Loving'
To the Editor of The Star:
About the only way we have of de-
termining the peace-loving tendencies
of nations is by their past behavior
Here is comparative list of the num-
Der of wars (prepared by an eminent
American authority that the world S
leading nations have fought between the
years 1480 and 194l:
Great Britain, IS; France. II; Spain,
"a; Russia, 81, Austria, So; Turkey 43;
Sweden. 26; Italy, Is; Holland, %; Ger
many, %; Denmark, 20 China. IL;
Japan, 9; United States, 13 mot includ-
ing the ITO wars" fought against the
Indians which the War Department
records credit us With.
If this list is correct and If we are to
move the Germans out of Europe and