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Rabbi Franklin and Good Will.
The luncheon tendered by Temple Beth El and the
Men's Temple Club to the Committee on Good Will be-
tween Jews and Christians of the Federal Council of
Churahes of Christ in America was significant because
of the fact that the time honored platitudes were omit-
ted and a frank and open discussion of underlying is-
sues was had.
Dr. Leo M. Franklin. speaking for the Jews. made it
clear that all the talk on good will would be ineffective
unless the Protestants of good will set about with vigor
and determination to destroy the Klan MO per cent
American myth which has become part of the current
ideology of the country. He conceived it IS an im-
pertinence for Christians whose lives belie all Chris-
tianity to send missionaries to the Jews. He further
urged that if good will is to prevail the story of the
crucifixion must not be told to children in the religious
schools in such a fashion as to place the responsibility
upon the Jews. This unambigious, frank speaking may
be regarded as calculated to make the achievement of
good will a distant prospect. but how can we hope for
good will unless there is understanding?
The non-Jewish world must know the position of
the Jew before there can be mutual regard and help-
fulness. Dr. Franklin could have spoken softly and
temporizingly. He could have applauded the efforts
of some few Christians whose lives are in keeping with
the ideals of their faith and have assured them that
because of their service good will is already a living
fact. But Dr. Franklin knows there are potent factors
in American life which make for ill will and until these
factors are made harmless there shall be strife and bit-
terness.
At this season of the year it is important that the
story of the crucifixion be told, if at all, with a proper
historical background else it will lead as it has led in
the past to intolerance and misunderstanding.
The inquisitorial elements in the Christian church
have exploited the story for the purpose of stirring up
ill will. No one can deny that the story has been a
more prolific cause of anti-Semitism than any single
cause to which one can point. European anti-Semitism.
aside from its intellectual or economic content, has been
based upon the emotion aroused by the crucifixion. The
Klan ingredients are a mendacious nationalism plus re-
ligious bigotry. If the anti notion is to be deleted the
White Protestant church must begin the task of des-
troying those maleficent ideas which have grown up in
connection with the death of the founder of the Chris-
tian church.
We may minimize this crucifixion idea as much as
we choose but it is hardly conceivable that one will feel
at all kindly if he believes that you killed a beloved
friend. Christians and Gentiles are people with emo-
tions exactly like our own and we, too. would feel ill
disposed if we were told from earliest childhood that a
certain group of people had killed our dearest friend.
The story told to Christian children is historically
untrue and if the Christian churches are in earnest the
responsibility should be placed where it belongs. The
life of Jesus has enough beauty and nobility to attract
and hold Christians without resorting to his tragic
death as a means of holding the communicants.
More of the gospel of love and less of hate is needed
to cure a sick world.
The Perlman Bill.
Some of the hardships of the immigration law may
be removed if a concerted effort is made by those who
are genuinely interested. In his message to Congress
the President, speaking on immigration, said among
other things:
The situation should, however, be carefully surveyed.
in order to ascertain whether it is working a needless hard-
ship upon our own inhabitants. If it deprives them of the
comfort and society of those bound to them by close family
ties, Such mod•fleatione should be adopted as will afford
relief, always in accordance with the principle that our
government owes its first duty to our own people and that
no alien. inhabitant of another country, has any legal
rights whatever under our Constitution and laws.
The law as it now stands deprives many of our in-
habitants of the comfort and society of those bound to
them by close family ties. Under the present arrange-
ment the separation may continue for years because the
ti number of immigrants who desire to come here is ten
times as large as those who are permitted to enter under
the quotas.
If this change is made the greatest credit will be due
to the splendid efforts of the members of the Jewish
faith in Congress. The latest concrete evidence of this
effort is a bill introduced in Congress by Hon. Nathan
D. Perlman of New York. The bill is known as H. R. 5
and proposes to amend the law so that the wife, hus-
band. unmarried 'children and parents of a citizen of
the United States, as well as the wife. husband and un-
married children under 20 years of age of permanent
residents who have declared their intention of becom-
ing citizens of the United States may enter the country
as non-quota immigrants.
The most elementary humanity would approve the
modification of the law to include these classes and the
approval of the President should be sufficient to assure
its passage, but we cannot forget the stubborn attitude
of the exclusionist proponents. We recall with vivid-
ness the representations made on behalf of refugees
with visas and the flat refusal of the labor department
to do anything. We cannot forget the fact that the
bill to enable them to enter died because Congress ad-
journed without taking action. We recognize the spirit
underlying immigration legislation. It cannot he de-
nied in the face of the facts that if it were at all pos-
sible not a single person from Eastern and Southeastern
Europe would be admitted. The immigration restric-
tionist is marked by an unalterable deep rooted feeling
of opposition to the non-Nordics and only persistent.
concerted action will bring about the modifications rec-
ommended by President Coolidge.
The specific concrete work you may do is to write
or wire your Congressman and Senator urging him to
vote for the Perlman bill.
Anti-Semitism Gets Another Blow.
The Klan of Hungary known as the Awakening
Magyars is fast going the way of all organizations born
of the travail of after war defeatism and irreconciali-
bility. The official paper Agni was compelled to sus-
pend publication on account of lack of support. This
failure means that the spirit of hatred cannot live un-
less there is some special object to hate and when that
hatred does not cost the hater too much.
The Allies were the primary cause of their cha-
grin and disappointment and the logical persons against
whom their anger and hatred would have been directed
but because the Allies were the victors it became neces-
sary for the vanquished to make substitutions and to
sublimate these passions. Among all the whipping boys
the best were the Jews. All the venom and pent up bit-
terness of disillusionment and resentment could be
heaped upon the Jew without much danger of punish-
ment.
The scapegoat of Hungary had to endure insult,
humiliation, numerus clausus and even murder without
retaliating. All this was borne with patience and gra-
ciousness. No opportunity to foment trouble was given
these meretricious spreaders of ill will by the Jews of
Hungary. It was but natural that the artifically created
hostility should grow weaker until it practically died of
inanition.
Other things were happening which brought home
to the sounder elements the realization that the out-
side world did not approve Hungarian methods. The
proud, aristocratic Hungarian found himself a member
of a minority nationality in those crazy quilt artincial
post war states, created by the Versailles Treaty. It
was rather inconsistent to complain to the League of
Nations as a minority while at the same time your own
minorities were treated abominably.
Then, too, Hungarian officials found that they were
objects of no inconsiderable derision when they asked
for justice and reason before international bodies. They
were brought up suddenly and made to recognize their
untenable, inconsistent position as pleaders while all
the time guilty of most reprehensible atrocities against
peoples whose only crime was their inoffensiveness.
A country myopic as to its own shortcomings and
clear eyed as to the injustice against it needed some
rude shock to make it realize how ridiculous it was.
The shocks were furnished by the Interparliamentary
Union, the press and the League of Nations. A respite
from orgies seems imminent; hatred may now be placed
on the taboo list with the hope that Hungary will return
to the practice of civilization to which it has been a
stranger for more than a decade.
Now that one of the prolific sources of defeatism
and hatred has died from lack of support and since
some of the worst offenders have become defenders of
persecuted minorities we may reasonably hope to learn
that Hungary has abandoned its crude anti-Semitism,
numerus clausus and childish discrimination. May the
death of the official organ of the Awakening Magyars
be an earnest for the birth of a spirit of tolerance and
graciousness which did at one time characterize this
highly cultured people.
Again Russian Recognition.
Senator William A. Borah wants the United States
to recognize Russia. In 1923 Russia was placed out-
side the pale and we have gone along with the com-
placent belief that,Soviet Russia was only a myth. But
despite our refusal to take notice of her existence she
has gone on with her program of internal consolidation
and development while at the same time no oppor-
tunity has been lost to bring about more friendly re-
lations with the outside world. Only the United States
has remained adament in her refusal to deal with the
Soviets. At the present writing the fable of the red
flag on the White House has grown rather weak and
thin. Rumors, alarms and scares about Russia have not
disturbed us of late which lends color to the belief that
the question of recognition may be viewed with calm-
ness and reasonableness. • Then, too, the Locarno
Treaty, with all its shortcomings, has brought about
that condition in Europe which America insisted be a
condition precedent to its active participation in the
serious problems of European rehabilitation. As long
as we do not recognize Russia, a complete adjustment
of European affairs is impossible. Russia bulks large
and ominous in present day Europe and must be con-
sidered.
What were the reasons for our refusal to recognize
Russia? The paramount reasons were: first, her re-
fusal to pay her debts; second. her refusal to pay for
property confiscated; third, her persistence in spread-
ing Bolshevik propaganda. Senator Borah claims to
have positive and convincing proof that Russia is now
willing to pay her debts, make restitution for confis-
cated property and desist from all propaganda.
Our own bitter enders will not traffic with Russia
not for any cogent and sound reason but because of an
hysterical fear of which they have become the victims.
If we should for the present waive all humanitarian
consideration, Senator Borah believes that Russia wit
soon be in the market for many of our commodities and
he sees no reason why we should not take advantage
of our stragetic and strong economic position. Russia
needs money to build her own industries, develop her
commerce and improve her agriculture. If relations are
again established it will result in mutual benefits.
The Jews of Russia as well as the Jews of America
are particularly interested in the establishment of
friendly relations. Many of the fallacious arguments
advanced against the J. D. C. plan would fall of their
own weight. The recognition of Russia would mean
that the Soviets would become clean in the eyes of the
bitterest anti-Sovietist. It would mean that the day
of normal. healthy economic life would be hastened
which must of necessity affect the Jewish population.
If Senator Borah can substantiate all his claims
(and he is not given to irresponsible talk) we can see
no reason why a speedy settlement of all American-
Russian difficulties cannot be achieved.
DIGEST
Anti-Semitism and Judaism-
"The Problem of the French in Syria"
By DR. WOLFGANG VON WEISL
France drew from the Damascus
In the columns of the Yiddish press events the proper conclusions. Gen-
we again find discussed anti-Semitism end Gamelin retreated from the Jebel
in general and its manifestations in Druze, evacuated the Ilauran and
the Steiger trial in Lemberg. Potands concentrated all of his available
in the nal-urns clausus controversy in troops about Damascus, which he
Hungary. and in the recent utterances fortified. in accordance with the Mos
of men like George Bernard Shaw and roccan precept, by earthworks. The
place of the Syrian gendarmerie was
others.
It is the old, old legend in a mode
modern taken by French troops. the railway
form. says the Jewish Daily Eagle of was guarded by the French and the
were convoyed by armored
Canada. discussing the new tide of an- trains
ti-Semitism in Europe. The Eagle cars. And, finally, Sarni was re-
finds that what the Jew in modern railed.
The military measures were indis-
times is particularly and universally
pensable and useful. The only trouble
charged with is internationalism. And
this charge, no less than the anti-Sem- was that they had come too late.
kit charges of former times that Jews Taken in good time, they might have
are using Christian blood for their saved a great deal of misery. But
Matzoth, finds its believers with equal the recall of the "Haute Commis-
readiness and eagerness among the ed- saire," however it may have pleased
people both in the East and the West,
ucated as among the illiterate, among
students and professors of universi- may turn out to have been a mistake
that will perhaps invalidate the only
ties. as among peasants and city
benefit of the bombardment of Da-
tradespeople.
mascus. The Oriental, it should be
The charge is that the Jew is inter-
borne in mind, views the recall of the
national, that he knows of no attach- general
as something in the nature of
ment to • country and naturally he a punishment
for his bombardment
cannot feel any responsibility or loy-
of
the
Caliphs,
and in this view he is
alty expected of a good citizen. "This undoubtedly right.
A conclusion that
'International Jew' is Socialist, Com- the Oriental is quite
likely to draw
munist, Revolutionary for some, or from this cireernetanee
will be that
else he is the well-known Jewish bank- the
successor
of
General
Samil will
er, the great capitalist and usurer, ex-
never dare to apply similar measures,
ploiting the toilers of the Christian that
is
to
say,
that
another
revolt at
lands, a modern Shylock, seeking much
Damascus will be less dangerous to
more than his pound of flesh, exerting the
rebels
than
it
was
under
Sarrail.
his influence everywhere to the detri-
That an effect of this kind is by
ment of the best Christian interests.
excluded seems likely when
The modern legend of the Interna- no means
consider the character of thbs rest-
tional Jew which is in our days being we
less
city.
circulated among the Christians, is but
It is • very common mistake to be-
a new text, another form for the same
old legend of the Jew as against the lieve that it is only now that Damascus
has become excited and that with the
Christian world."
removal of the chief culprit, Sarrail,
Vladimir Grossman, in an article on
everything will be in the best order
"Bernard Shaw's anti-Semitism" in once
more. Sarrail may have lost,
he Day, says:
through his quarrels with the higher
It would be the greatest folly on clergy, the very valuable support of
the part of such a wise people as the these circle', possibly the still more
Jews are, to raise cries of protest valuable support, counsel and advice
against the 'anti-Semitism' of Eng- which these people, with their excel-
land's greatest play-wright, George lent knowledge of local conditions. had
Bernard Shaw, only because, in his re- been giving his predecessors in office.
ply to the French playwright Henri
But the fact remains that in the whol-
Bernstein. he tells the latter that he is ly Mohammedan city of Damascus the
no more than • Jew and should there- situation always has been exactly as
after have no say in matters of either it was described just one year ago by
French or English cultural life."
M. de Caix, the French representative
Mr. Grossman sees in Shaw's utter- at the Permanent Mandates Commis-
ances against Jews a mere accidental sion of the League of Nations.
element which does not warrant our
He then said: "Damascus has been
calling him an anti-Semite. Further- the metropolis of Syria, where the
more, Shaw is by far Oct too ardent strongest opposition was manifested
a lover of Britains and everything that against the mandate. For nearly two
is British. His article. which called years (191A-1919) it was the seat of a
forth a rejoinder from Henri Bernstein
government that had striven to fight
was an expression of hate for every-
the French influence and to prevent
thing that is French, and Mr. Shaw's
the establishment of • mandate. In
erratic opinions and utterances must certain quarters in Damascus this op-
in no way he taken as an expression
position is still alive. It derives its
of even a small part of British public
support from the belief of the Nation-
opinion. "The writer sees in present alists that the country could govern
day England ■ spread of "Semitism" itself, without the aid of any mandate.
rather than anti-Semitism. The posi-
(Quoted from the fifth session of the
tion and influence of Jews in England
Mandates Commission, October 30.
might well arouse the jealousy and
1924.)
envy of many men, and even a George
Such was the atmosphere in 1924,
Bernard Shaw could not, in his old age. such
it was before the bombardment,
escape from such sentiments"
such
it was after that. To expect a
On the other hand, the Jewish Daily change
in the situation from the
Eagle, discussing the same incident, change of
High Commissioners, is
and a recent article in the English rather hasty.
The rebel:ion is in full
Jewish Chronicle on Disraeli, takes an- swing, and today
only question is,
other view of the matter of Jewish al- Whether, How, the
When it may be
truism. The paper says:
crushed!
"The Jew, whether born In the coun-
To send out an expedition against a
try or not, is a distinct creature, die-
band in a definite region is
tinguishable from his Gentile or Mo- defiinite
useless.
The insurgents are always
hammedan or Pagan fellow-voter. or well informed
by their numerous sym-
do we feel disposed to hide our head pathizers regarding
the objective of
in shame over the fact. Nothing could
the
marching
troops,
they simply
have hurt M. Bernstein more than the move on before it is and
too late. They
essential truth of Shaw's analysis of generally let the regulars
fight it out,
the Jewish character. Nothing could unless, in exceptional circumstances,
he more devastating to the ideals of an engagement looks promising to
French Jewry still seeped in the en-
The troops occupy a village,
lightenment of racial assimilation. We them.
are told that the rebels have re-
Jews are and should be something they
treated
the mountains, and they
apart from the rest of mankind," likewise to
march toward the mountains.
thinks the Eagle. "It seems to be our In the meantime
the rebels return, re-
unhappy lot to set before' the world
the village, punishing, robbing
a new, or rather, a re-discovered con- occupy
killing all those who were friend.
ception of citizenship that shall not be and with
the French.
'judged by a standard cranial measure- ly Whenever
a certain region begins to
ment. or color of skin and hair. Until be too uncomfortable,
well, there is
the dawn of that better day, the ex-
otic Jew must patiently wait. relin- always some other place to go. Ques-
tions
of
supply,
of
munitions,
of re-
quishing none of his rights to be true
to his own nature. a dissident citizen cruits scarcely worry these people,
time they simply force the villages in
of the State in which he abides."
The Jewish World of Cleveland, in their path to make all kinds of con-
an editorial of Dec. 15, blames Hun- tributions and even to furnish armed
garian Jewry for the league's unfav- men. That the successes of the hand-
orable decision in the matter of the its are, in themselves, a strong attrac-
numerus clausus. "Nowhere has as- tion for those who desire to join them
similation assumed such repulsive may be assumed as certain.
There are today some six groups of
forms, as in Hungary," says the pa-
rebels that seem to be operating ac-
per, and it points to the comical side
cording
to a common plan, terrorizing
of the tragedy of Hungarian Jewry in
that. according to Klebelsberg's as- the country between the Lebanon and
sertion. "special laws must not be the desert.,
The most important group is still
enacted against national Jews, but
furnished by the Drozes, apparently
against Jews as a religious sect only;
under
the personal command of Sultan
against Magyars of the law of Moses
Pasha el Atrash, who has been pro-
all persecution and discrimination
claimed
"Commander-in-chief of the
seems to be justified."
"Are Jews a Nation or Merely a Re- Revolutionary Armies" and command.
ligious Group?" is the title of an ar- the rebels with the aid of three mili-
ticle by Dr. A. Margolin, of the Chi- tary advisers from Damascus, who
cago Jewish Daily Courier. The writ- form his general staff. Sultan Pasha
er shows the inconsistency of the ar- has the whole country between the
guments of Count Klebeleherg before Cheers and the railway line Ezraa-
Derah in his control, and all the con-
the League of Nations. "A mere re-
ligious group of Magyar citizens can- quests of Gamelin were lost by his re-
treat
of Nov. 5. That Sultan Pasha
not be deprived of rights enjoyed by
has also occupied the northern Hau-
the rest of the population."
Under the same title, The Jewish ran, to has been reported from Arab
World of Philadelphia devotes an edi- sources seems doubtful.
Closely allied with the Jebel Brows
torial to this question, which was im-
posed upon the league for decision by are the hands of Wady Aim. a fer-
"Jews who are nationally dead, and tile valley of some 20 kilometers in
who have been using 'the Law of width and 60 in length, running from
Moses' merely as a means for con- Damascus in a south-westerly direc-
cealing this fart." The paper points tion toward the Palestine frontier. at
out diet as far as the League of Na- the base of the Hermon Mountains,
tions is concerned, the Jews have long which reach an altitude of 3.000 met-
been recognized as the meet national ers. The valley is traversed by the
of natinnalitiee, which has been cor- eery important automobile highway
roborated both by scientist research Damascus- Kuneitra- Tiberae- Haifa,
and is inhabited by brazes, Chirstians
and by facts of practical life."
Arguing along the same line of and Circassiens.
At the outbreak of the Druze rebel-
thought, an editorial in The Day read,
lion there were attacks by the very
in part:
"This reference to the Hungarian warlike NUM, upon their very timid
Jews disclaiming their nationality may Christian neighbors. The government
have been the strongest of their three dispatched to this area some gen-
arguments advanced by Hungary's darmes and soldiers, whereupon an
representative in Geneva. But it will azreement was concluded between
de Hungary no good. For the rights Draws and Christians. on the hnsie of
of national minorities have been recog- a formula something like this: "Leave
nised by the Versailles treaty, and the me alone. and I shall leave you alone."
The peace arrangement did not in-
Jews were recognized as belonging to
such happy minorities. Not always, clude the Circassians, and then.
it SMTS, will political hypocricy serve thought the apnearance of Damascene
as masque for reactionary brutal- hands to be sufficiently good onportun.
for doing some fighting on their own
account. They attacked these hands
Three thing' soon pass away: wom- and are alleged to have looted several
an's beauty, the rainbow and the Drum villages. The Circassian' of
Damascus also made common cause
echo of the woods.
o e-
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with the French. Wberet:p- r
Druzes at Damascus toot their
verge by depositing 11 dead C•rol..
liens at the gates of the city, fsr ---
French to look at. In the Wady A • .
things were growing stormy. ,•
Janda!, a village situated able.• •
kilometers west of Damascus, a - • -
base of Mt. Hermon, was taken t - -
rebels. The Moslems of the ne.g•
hood fled. The telegraph line : •
entice was destroyed. Automo .
were waylaid. Cattle was dross
and, finally and sudder!y, there
Sultan Pasha's br••ther, Zeld
s••
rash, at the head of some lesets) lo .7
warriors and seized the
Medic' esh Slums, on the so o t,.
slope of Mt. Hermon .
The invasion of Z,id el Atrash. -
ever, was to go beyond Wady •--
His object was to arouse the ro
villages of the Bekaa. the terse- -• -
important plain between the
and Hermon—where the J••r.lc
.
its sources. It may ever. to
:-
has still greater ambitions, - • -
to push down to the 40 kil..m• • -
tart seacoast, proposing tho. •
rapt communications beta--
•nd Palestine. (At this very ,
there are rumors afloat that
,•
ic communication with Sod - • ,.
ready been severed in the
-
Beirut
At all events, the first attack • f 7.-
el Atrash was successful.
any resistance worth speaking :
recopied the important town
l•
boys and looted the surrounding re,
flan villages. Kaukaha offered .••. -
born but futile resistance, whole
ida, a large place whose Christ ar
habitants had been armed and - •
forced by 50 gendarmes. was
•
doped in panic before the ester; •
peered upon the scene. Tee
thing centred in four other r• a • - •
tween Judeida and the Paleot.rs
ter. The inhabitants fled to Pa '. --•. 7 -
and partly to Sidon.
Twoother bands have been ..,r) .
Damascus from the north and soors
They keep under cover in the iota-
ant gardens and orchards of the Rao:a
and attack from time to tone
a i•
Vance posts. At night one hear: or
DAMASCUS, and especially at the rai:•
way station of Kadam, south of rho
city, the rattling of rifle fire. lisre,
in front of the French outposts. are
the petroleum reservoir', and, as Ore::
are just within the range of rho e s.-
from both sides, they are likely to go
up in smoke at any moment.
The sixth band operates fr iv
eastern slopes of the Anti-Lel-anon. a
mountain range of nearly 3.000 mete-s
in height and about 30 kilometers :-
width. This band holds the Tolson f
Jerud, half-way towards Palrey•a,
and is under the command of Paritaisse
Shalash. It threatens the railway Ors
Horns - Baalbek - Raiak - Damascus. as
well as the above named cities. Wto -
a French expedition marched sea.--•
the 2,000 men in this band, they s ..••••
safety in the hills. When the tr • •• •
retired, they reoccupied Jelud, N-
and the other villages in that part r
the country.
The present situation is as fall -a-
Unless France achieves, by some 7 -
titles' negotiations, a change in 7 --
military status, there will be requ.r- •
at least 80,000 fighters to restore --
der in Syria. There is no secs. •
fighting each band separately, ' r
that might require years and yew ,
of struggle and only make the rec.'s
more bitter. The only way is to !—
liver a simultaneous blow to all
the six bands, and this should be do—
everywhere with a force at least the.--
times that of the enemy, in order 7
secure an effective encircling mo . -
ment around each group. It muo. i.
borne in mind that guerilla band:
not fight like regular troops. o -
need good roads. For such bar
roadies' valleys and mountain rare- ,
are sufficient, and these ought to
shut in tightly if the war is to re •
within a reasonably near future. a•.
the same time the towns, the most '7'
portant way stations, the railros
and the automobile highways ouzo: -
to be guarded against the format.
of new bands. •-
The experiences of Morocco or ,
thus repeated in Syria. Against sore,
20,000 or, at the most. 25,000 rebels.
disproportionately large Europe: -
forces have to be put in the field, s• •
yet the results are insignificant 3.
compared with the efforts.
The French have resorted to
rather dangerous exoedient of arr•s.
the national minorities. Cireassiao•
Kurds, but Christians above all, as ,
being called to the colors to tight •
rebels. The British are not over-• s
thusiastic about it. as it stirs ar•
the antagonism between Mohammes-
ans and Christians. threatening t' ..t•
to poison the relations between th..
two elements of the population fsr
years to come. But the real (I:vs.- -
may be elsewhere—the Christians of
Syria are absolute failures as war.
riors. The example of Jedeida has a
lesson to offer in this respect, a les-
son an impressive that it provoked a
Catholic clerbyman of Sidon to ur.
braid the refugees for their coward-
ice, reminding them that the Jews of
Metulla and Tel Chai five years Sea
denfended those places successfully'
for weeks and weeks against a su-
perior Druse force. The gad fact is.
however, that the long Mohammedan
domination has weaned the Chris-
tians of Syria from the use of arms.
so that their combative powers are
nil. Should they resist the enemy.
it will only stir him to vengeance.
without any hope of seriously oppos-
ing him, All that such resistance
does is to afford the attacking sid,-
the excuse for murder and pillage. as
has been the case already in the
Merdj Assiut
Another peril, and one that is as
yet little enough thought of, is fam-
ine. Large areas in Eastern Syria
bane suffered through the insurrec-
tion, chiefly because it prevented
timely sowing of winter grain. This
coming spring there is bound to be
famine. And if the guerilla bands
not completely annihilated or
pacified by that time, they are going
ements
to m° obtain
n
it inhabitants.
re-
nha is b f it e arn e ts .
among the
destitute
es ftre
M. de Jouvenel is faced by one of
the most difficult problems that ever
confronted • colonial administrator.
It requires something more than the
power' of the ordinary politician to
master the difficulties and end the
Syrian war. —Jewish Telegraphic
Agency.
"la jeer. 'SW