April 7, 1944
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
and for the 52 sovereign states resolution, the answer is that
whose business it is in the final this is a military secret. And in-
instance to regulate, supervise deed a secret it is, and not only
and assure the economic and po- a secret but a dark mystery and
By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN
litical development of the Jew- a mystification to boot.
The Wagner-Taft-Compton res- there is an acute labor shortage ish National Home.
When the Germans stood at,
olution, which was to have been in that country, and wh'en, in
The Arab politicians did not the gates of Alexandria and were
introduced in the Congress of addition, the Evian and the Ber- act on their own account. Funda- bearing down on the Near East
the United States in the form of muda conferences on refugees mentally they have not the least through the Caucasus, there was
a bill, was designed to impress have shown not a single state interest in Palestine. They were good reason to keep an eye on
upon the Government of Great on earth is willing to take in acting on behalf of Great Brit- the Arab princes. Then indeed
Britain the growing concern of mass-immigration of Jews.
ain. The Prime Ministers of the Chief of Staff of the Egyp-
American public opinion with the
As soon as the hearings got Egypt, and Irak are not free tian army had to be arrested at
tragic and constantly worsening under way in Washington, the agents. They are employees of the moment when he was board-
plight of the Jewish people. For British Colonial Office set in mo- the British Colonial Office. They ing an airplane for • Rommel's
that people, of which fully three tion the machinery it had long would not hold their positions a headquarters with Montgomery's
millions have been slain since ago prepared to frustrate just week if they should go counter secret campaign plans in his
Hitler's accession to power, is such an expression of sympathy to the British imperialist interests pocket. Then the Iraqi Arab
today caught on the horns of on the part of the American or if they disobeyed the instruc- chiefs did indeed call in Adolf
this ghastly and tragic dilemma people for the Jews and their tions of the British Colonial Of- Hitler's Luftwaffe and staged a
that while the killing of Jews efforts to build themselves a Na- fice and the British Agency in bloody revolt. Then, too, when
by the Nazi extermination squads tional Home in Palestine, because Cairo. They are marionettes who the British Empire seemed about
goes on without interruption on such an expression of moral sup- are made to talk and made to to have its jugular vein cut at
the one hand, Great Britain, on port would by the very nature act by their British overlords.
Suez, King Ibn Saoud could not
the other hand, has put a stop of things be tantamount to a
While disregarding the Arab spare one man, one mule or one
to Jewish immigration into Pal- rebuke for the British Colonial protests, the commissioners at gun in that awful hour. Only the
estine, thus barring their escape administration which has con- the hearing also refrained from Palestinian Jews stepped forward
to the refugees from Europe. sistently sought to sabotage and naming the dens ex machina, the in their tens of thousands to
And this at a moment when the hinder the growth of a Jewish British Colonial Office, in a laud- fight at Britain's side and the
social and economic framework Palestine.
able sentiment of solidarity with Palestine industries supplied the
The Colonial Office, as I pre- the British ally against whose British armies with necessities
for the reception and absorption
of at least one million Jews has dicted in my book "The Forgot- reactionary colonial policy there without which, as Lord Strabolgi
been prepared in the Holy Land ten Ally" published in October is a growing suspicion and re- said in the House of Lords, Brit-
and is ready to function, when last year, put a spoke in the sentment in this country. It ain might have gone down to
wheels at Washington, by con- would not have been pleasant if defeat.
voking in Cairo, the capital city the hearings had produced a
But this General Hurley did
of England's puppet-state Egypt, forthright revelation of Britain's not tell the President. He told
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the politicians and their jour- real design in the Near East Mr. Roosevelt that Ibn Saoud
nalistic hangers-on from several which amounts to scrapping the would revolt. The Germans have
foreign Arab countries and had whole mandatory system, oust- gone. They have been driven
CITY
them dispatch telegrams of in- ing French influence, eliminating out of Africa by Montgomery,
dignation and protest to the State the Jews and monopolizing do- a quarter of whose troops were
MESSENGER
Department against further Jew- minion in that part of the world Palestinian Jews. The Germans
ish immigration into Palestine through the instrumentality of have been hurled it thousand
CO.
and the establishment in that Arab princes as British dominion miles back from the passes of
country of a Jewish Common- is monopolized in India with the the Caucasus. What is there to
DEPENDABLE GENERAL
wealth at the close of the war. connivance of native princes and fear now in the Near East?
CARTAGE
These politicians from Irak, maharajahs.
Where is the enemy or the new
Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon,
The hearings went on the res- potential trouble - maker? King
Syria and Saoudia had, of course, olution seemed assured of an
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not the least right to interfere easy passage when the British
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in Palestine's affairs and even took alarm. Drew Pearson re-
less in American affairs. Palestine vealed that it was General Pat-
is • a charge of the League of rick J. Hurley who went to the
Passover Greetings to A!!!
Nations and what happened in President with the warning that
or with Palestine is the proper King Ibn Saoud would revolt if
Passover Greetings to All!
concern of the Permanent Man- more Jewish immigrants were al-
dates Commission of the League, lowed into Palestine and if a
of the International Court of Jewish commonwealth were set
Justice and of the 52 sovereign up in that country. For the sake
BADER BROS.
states, including the United of military security, therefore,
KERSCHER
States of America, who by ratifi- and to avoid political complica-
cation of the mandate over Pal- tions in the Near East where
BAG CO.
ELEVATOR CO.
estine, became participants in large numbers of Anglo-Ameri-
the great humanitarian attempt can troops are assembling and
to solve the problem of Jewish preparing for an assault on Hit-
national homelessness by pro- ler-held Europe, the resolution
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viding Israel with the opportun- should not be permitted to pass
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ity to build a home of his own and should be called off. This
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was urged by General Marshall
in Israel's land.
The British Colonial Office when he appeared before the
calmly substituted the politicians Senate's Foreign Relations Com-
of various Arab countries for mittee as the spokesman for Mr.
those international organizations Hull, the Secretary of State.
Thus were the tables turned
Passover Greetings!
on the resolution's sponsors who
were placed in the unfavorable
light of being men acting to the
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detriment of the war effort.
Of course when the question
is asked what precisely is the
ELGO SHUTTER military necessity or expedient
involved in the calling off of the
IS THERE NOT A SORROW...
Ibn Saoud and the other Arab
states? Have the Arab princes
taken the place of the Axis?
Ibn Saoud revolt? Where?
Against whom? How? Will he
cross the Rub 'al Khali, the
Empty Quarter's howling wild er.
ness which separates his do-
mains from Palestine and which
only one man, St. John Philby,
ever traversed, to the undying
amazement of Ibn Saoud himself?
Ibn Saoud might indeed try
to raise the price of the oil
which the American Governm en t
proposed to tap from his soil if
Jews are allowed to take refuge
in Palestine. But Ibn Saoud will
not revolt against anyone. Nor
will the Bedouin of Transjordan
or the starving masses of Egypt
who do not even know the name
of Palestine. The Pan-A rabism
with which sonic are trying to
scare America is a myth. It
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