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TWO
THEPETIV_PIEWISR ItROr1cLE
BALFOUR, LLOYD GEORGE, SMUTS CHARGE
OBSCURE CAUSES IMPEDE THE TASK OF
HONORING BRITAIN'S PLEDGES TO JEWS
in the light of the present events! ly working well. In recent years The whole mandatory system was
th at te
h co mmission h sould hve
a the countr y was pros perinhe
CHANUKAH DINNER
been go t to work at gre ater spe ed policy that Lord Plumer g. carrTied new, was an experiment and I fear
that what we considered an exper-
OF SHAAREY ZEDEK;
and it is clearly desirable now that out with conspicuous success in the ment forthe first five or 10 years,
they should complete as soon as interests of Palestine of first and has been converted into a system
Great
interest has been shown!
possible their comparatively lie-, foremost equal toleration for all
(Continued from Page One.) , inet which took upon itself the re- ited task and allow the development religions, Christian, Moslem and madc not at Whitehall, not in by the members of Shaarey Zedek
mission to investigate the whole sponsibility for the Balfour Dec- o f Palestine, which is the real pur- Jew, seemed gradually to be re- Downing street but in Jerusalem. congregation in the Chanukah ban-
working of the mandate. The com- titration. The Times points out that pose of the mandate, to overshadow during the religious factor in na- And with many honored exceptions
mission at present in Palestine at that time Lloyd George was the the quarrels of race and religion. I tional politics. That was to be the it has been made into a system of
our work. This can-
was appointed with limited terms head of the government which de- Lord Balfour and his fellow-signa- policy of his successor whose troub- obstructing
of reference to inquire into specific mended and obtained the mandate torics ask for a deeper investiga- ' les soon after his appointment im- not be tolerated.
"It
is
perhaps
a lack of under-
matters. This commission, in our for Palestine. These three, says tion with wider terms and with ref- mensely complicated his task and
view, must, as soon as it has re- the Times, should be extremely erence to the whole workings of thewon universal sympathy. In any standing and appreciation on the
part
of
officialdom
which cannot
ported, be supplemented by a , well-informed about the conditions mandate, and in view of the attacks
case, if the government, after
I
searching inquiry into major ques- of the mandated territory and it that have been made upon it there studying the report of the Inquiry understand the motive which moved
Great
Britain
to
give
us the Bal-
tions of policy and administration. is not surprising that they regard is something to be said for their Commission decides that the ad-
Our pledge is unequivocal, bUt in its present state with deep anxiety, view, It is possible that the prey- ministrative machine needs adjust- four Declaration. We are a volun-
tary
movement
and
everything
is
order to fulfill it in letter and spir- Great Britain set her hand at the eat commission inquiry may find ment, then at least they will be
it, a considerable readjustment of close of the war is not proceeding that the recent troubles have been well advised to repeat to the world based on confidence. We are work-
ers who give our lives voluntarily.
the administrative machine may he satisfactorily.
caused chiefly by personal inade- in general and the inhabitants of
desirable.
' Continuing, the Times says: quacies, either in Jerusalem or Palestine in particular, that there If our confidence is shaken, the
Such a commission would be an "There is evidence that the politi- nearer home. In such case a is no question of the abandonment rock on which we built is shaken.
touch things, eternal things,
advertisement to the world that cal crime in the outrages against change of personnel and adminis- of the mandate or a repudiation of You
are already in eternity and
Britain has not weakened in a task the property of the Jewish colonists tration will be all that is required. the Balfour Declaration. The suc- which
nobody,
however powerful, may
to which her honor is pledged and and the anti-Jewish boycott has It is also possible that the inveati- cess of the Palestine mandate is of tamper with
it.
at the same time an assurance to 'been a source of profit to its organ- gators will conclude that the task major interest to the British Em-
For
the
sake of the good and'
Jews and Arabs alike that any !izers and of anxiety to the authori- set the administration is to heavy, pire, nor will the obligations of
proven defects in the present sys- ties. In short, the relations betweenthat the removal of practically all honor and the prompting of nation- fair name of Great Britain we
not allow petty officials to de-
tern of government will be made , these two communities are nearly I country exposed it overmuch to the al. sentiment inspired by associa- shall
good."
as bad as they could be and show hazards of civil commotion, that a tions in the Holy Land, counsel stroy Great Britain's own work."
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T imes
Boycott.
' no signs of improving as long as the reconciliation of the policy laid the abandonment of our plain
CHARGES NEGLIGENCE IN
Commenting on the letter, the protracted proceedings before the down in the Balfour Declaration duty."
CARRYING OUT MANDATE
London Times says that unusual Inquiry Commission continue to with the admitted rights of the
Statement by Weizmann.
interest attaches to it since It is present the whole problem of Pal- Arabs, required more constant at-
JERUSALEM. — (J. 'I. A.)—
Long before the August riots,
signed by Lord Balfour, Lloyd estine as a feud between Arab and tendon that it actually received the World Zionist Organization Charging that the mandatory pow-
George and General Smuts who Jew.
er had not performed its duty to-
at
Whitehall.
adopted
a
resolution
declaring
the
,(were members of the war-time cab-
'It would clearly have been better
"Yet the mandate was apparent- determination of the Jews to live ward the Jewish Agency, that it
on terms of concord and mutualhad not provided a single inch of
respect yith the Arabs and together e state lands for Jews that th e gov-
MISS IDA DIVINOFF
,
to make their common home into minent had even refused the
a list of the state-lands,
ofande, quet and entertainment to be held
a flourishing commonwealth, the a agency
Harry Such
er,
chairman
ed
the
upbuilding of which may assure
at the synagogue at 6 p. m., Sun-
xecut ive, reiterat
his day ,Oct. 29.
each of its peoples undisturbed na- Zionist executive,
taken
the Manchester
tional development, said Dr. Chaim stand
Guardian
of in
Augnti:
in which he
Rabbi Hershman will address the
Weizmann, president of the World
members and Cantor Elijah Zalud-
stated that Jewish officials were re-
e kowski will render Chanukah se-
public statement
Organization,
his
first l'alestine
singeing administrati
from their posts in the
public
since in
the
recent
lections, accompanied by Miss Rose
be
disturbances, speaking at a dinner they could not obtain on promcause
Bassin and Miss Ida Divinott, for-
promotion. merly of the Detroit Symphony Or-
in his honor at the Anglo-Palestine
Sacher specifically named two, Col. chestra, will play violin solos, ac-
Dealing further with the conten- Solomon and Dennis Cohen, both companied by Miss Rebecca Katz-
tion that allowance must be made of whom, he said, were told by man.
for the Balfour Declaration be- former High Commissioner Her-
The Young People's Society will
cause it was a war measure, Dr. bert Samuel that they would not present a comedy playlet, "Sham."
Weizmann pointed out that five be able to advance because they
For reservations call Mrs. S. Ru-
years after the declaration was is- were Jews.
biner, 2307 Webb avenue.
That the police would have been
sued, the l'alestine mandate was
formulated, printed, discussed, adequate to check the riots quickly PROCEEDS OF DANCE
drafted and redrafted and sub- if the proper amount of resolution
FOR PALESTINE FARMS
jected to the severest scrutiny had been used from the beginning
not only by the British govern- was the witness, reply to the ques-
tion
whether
he
felt
that
the
police
The
fifth annual Chanukah ball
ment but by all of the governments
were inadequate,
put charged
by Commis-
of the world, and it was "on this sioner
Shaw, Sacher
that of the Palestine I'ioneer Women's
Organization
will take place this
document that hundreds of thous•
Luke of lacked
in his influ-
exer- Sunday evening, Dec. 29, at the
ands of Jews went to Palestine.' rise
police judgment
power. The
Fort
Wayne
Hotel.
Finzel's Society
Concord With Arab..
ence should,
of the head of the govern- Orchestra will supply the music.
"I am not going to speak com- meat
should,
he
said,
have
been
The
proceeds
will
go towards the
pliments about the Arabs but long
upkeep of the girl pioneers' farms
before all this happened, the high- felt throughout.
in
Palestine.
Confronted
with
a
letter
writ-
est Zionist institution passed a res-
The committee in charge an-
olution which in my opinion em- ten by Col. Frederick Kisch on
bodies the relationship which I Oct. 22, congratulating Saunders nounces that souvenirs will be dis-
of
the
police,
on
behalf
of
the
Zion-
tributed
at the dance, and that
hope will exist between us and the
Arabs. It is 'our determination to lot Executive , for his zeal in the the tea room at the hotel has been
live with the Arabs on terms of preservation of order and the pro- turned over to the Pioneer Wo-
gether to make our common home tection of life, Sacher said that if men's Organizdtion for the night
into a flourishing commonwealth, the letter of gratitude applied to of the dance.
the upbuilding of which may as- the days following the initial hours
sure each of its people undisturbed of disaster, he was in agreement,
national development." otherwise not. Ile dismissed all charge made in the House of Com-
"The third partner is one who Preedy's references to the Mufti's mons.
E xplain, National Home.
has had a difficult task in carrying pacifying proclamation, saying that
out the Palestine mandate. I public utterances made little im-
"Two generations hence," de-
pression
on
him,--he
was
interest-
think I may say with a clear con-
clared Sacher, "the children of
science that those who worked with ed in knowing what the Mufti sai d those Arabs who murdered Jews,
me during these difficult 10 years and did privately.
will realize that the future of Pal-
desire not to embarass the man- . Failed in Duty to Agency.
estine is inseparably bound up with
datory and not to make its task to Sacher maintained that he was that of the Jews."
o
heavy. We know that in the first correct when, in his article, he stet-
The statement in the midst of
10 years one has to grope In the ed that the mandatory power had Sachers explanation of the mean-
dark and to feel one's way. We not performed its duty towards the ings of Jewish National Home and
ourselves were not sure, for in- Jewish Agency, that the govern- Zionism.
, stance, that the miracle would hap- meat had not given the agency any
The Jewish National Home,"
1415 to 1447 cui7ORD WOODWARD AVE
, pen, that generations of Jews to state-lands. Preedy counterer with Sacher said, "would be realized if
come would be capable of doing all a reference to the Kabara lands Jews were allowed to come here
of the work which has been done. given Pica, and the sand dunes freely and develop the country,
We therefore had to go slowly. in Rishon, but Sacher reminded creating a Jewish civilisation and
him that these were really Turk- expressing the true genius of the
Obstruction in J km.
"Standardized and new forms of ish grants which the present goy- Jews
"Standardized
administration had to be created. ernment had confirmed.
ii l is said that the Arabs had
Sacher complained that the Jew- lived here undisturbed for 1,300
ish Agency had ben refused a copy years. But during this period the
of the list of state-lands and elab- country had not made a single
I orated on his accusation that Jews contribution to the world. Its con-
were resigning from official posts tribution arose through the Jews.
because they were given no oppor- We bred in this country prophets
tunity for advancement. He with- and teachers, and up to now this
drew the accusations made by has been the significance of Pales-1
former witnesses against Aref El tine to a civilized world.
Aref, saying it was most regret-
"There came a time when the
' able that Jews had charged him Jews were driven out. We ceased
with inciting to riot at Hebron. to he a state but never ceased to
Preedy said ironically that it was be a nation. In the 2,000 long years
unfortunate the charge had been there has not been a moment when
allowed to remain so long. Merri- the Jews have not yearned to re-
man stated it would not be repeat- turn to Palestine. We have not
ed following Sachet's testimony.
come to make money, but to ease
our souls and to make contribution
The Hebron Story.
t o humanity.
After the completion of Sacher 5
"It may be pride," the witness
testimony, Rabbi Jacob Slonim, continued,
"it may be vanity, but
connected with the Yeshivah at He- there is not one
of us who does not'
exclusive
broil where the massacres occur- think we will be
value to our-
red, took the stand. Not under- selves and to the of Arabs.
We do
standing the long discussion be- not wish to interfere with the
Ar-
tween the commissioners and coun- ab
civilization.
We
ask
only
to be
sel as to the admissability of the allowed to create our own. Let
no
Arab counsel, Silley's question to one imagine that murder will stop
future,
the rabbi concerning the conduct us."
now
of the Jews of Hebron before the
Effendi Defrauded Arabs.
massacre, the rabbi broke down and
Evidence purporting to show that
I amid sobs insisted that the commis-
sion hear him,. lie thought that the Arabs themselves had been ex-
discussion meant that they were ploiting and defrauding Arab land-
trying to "prevent letting the world owners was presented to the In-
know through me the whole truth quiry Commission by Charles Pass-
about Ilebron." His outburst made man, former general manager of
the proceedings so difficult that the d the American Zion Commonwealth
Mr. Maughanam, the Arab court-
morning session was adjourne
early. Rabbi Slonim's evidenc sel, attempted to get Mr. Pr d
was merely a brief repetition o to admit that the AmeriCan Zion
the well-known facts about his so Commonwealth had inadequately
and relatives being killed before hi compensated Arab tenants in driv-
eyes. Ile told about an Arab youth ing them off their paternal lands.
warning him of an attack that wa Sir Boyd Merriman, counsel for the
$219.50 $450,
planned on the Yeshivah and how: Jews, in answer. got Mr. Passman
the Mufti had called on the Arab to state that the Bedouins of Jed-
Masi 285-- bisbees
• u glow and Rubor
! of Hebron to aid in the attack on row had been prevented from get-
anstria, panelled uni•
Jerusalem. Despite the fa* that ting off their land by an agreement
ins linorn-6and.rsob-
signed in 1925 with the Arab'
I he warned the district officer , Rab , they
lorl bisb-slo.
Da gni of a. By the agreement.
$281,um Owl
bi Slonim declared that the officio
m ■ aa.
belittled his and Rabbi Franck' i Dagni is said to have promised'
to obtain for them land rights at
a p prehensions.
Domney if they would give him 50' .
rnsinuates Zionists Responsible.
percent commission and agree to
Insinuations by governmen t forfeit
$1,500 each if they dealt
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Having
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massacres and the disturbance n
3 him, said Mr. Passman.
elsewhere, and the revival of th e
stration.
Mr. Maughanam then pointed
charge that the action of the Zion -' out
that these same Arabs, for
1st Congress at Zurich frightened driving off Jewish plowmen in 1925,
the Arab leaders, featured Thurs - had been arrested and imprisoned,'
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Bt his questions Preedy tried to
your home. Convenient payments
establish that the arrogance of the i The Arab attorney presented
figures
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Jews was responsible for the Au •
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gust riots, tie introduced Pierre fermi by the Jews to Arab land
owners
were so harsh that the Ar-
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The Palestine government will
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Preedy.
Sacher said he was convinced he security of all tourists, Keith-
Roach,
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district commis- ,1
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but conceded that it was difficult ioner for the Northern District,
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