May 10, 1946 (vol. 56, iss. 136) • Page Image 4
…a FOt$ THE~ MICHV; ANDILY FRIDAY, MAY 10, 19,16 _ . . -I. _ _ _.- LF Fifty-Sixth Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control…
… of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Margaret Farmer Hale Champion Robert Goldman Emily E. Knapp Pat Cameron . Clark Baker . Des Howarth.. Ann Schutz Dona Guimaraes Managing Editor Editorial…
… encouragement of democ- racy. -J. M. Jones in Harper's Attacks Arab 'Leaders' IN 1919, at Versailles Emir Feisal in asking in behalf of his+ father, King Hussein, for independ- ence for the Arab countries…
… develop Palestine, provided Arab independence were achieved in the Arab lands outside of Palestine. The Arabs outside of the Holy Land have achieved that. independence! Now for some statistics: During three…
… thousand years of recorded history, Palestine has been under Arab rule only 437 years (from 643 A.D., the time of the Arab conquest, to 1071, the time of the Tu'kish conquest). A small number of Arabs came…
… in after 643 A.D., but 75 per cent of the present day Arab population are themselves immi- grants or descendants of persons who immigrated to Palestine dur- ing the last hundred years-most- ly after…
… Jewish immigration be- gan to develop the country. In figures: the Arab population has grown from 664,000 in 1922, to 1,- 175,000 in 1944. It is indeed un- fortunate for the Arabs that Pal- estine does not…
… belong to the Arabs, but to a few Arabs, wealthy pro- prietors who fear the introduction of the labor unions, and universal education by the Jews. If the Arabs loved their own people half as much as they…
… have never known the meaning of the word democracy. Or perhaps that is just what the Arab princes do not want; perhaps that is just why they resent and fear so much the spreading of Jewish influence in…
… instituting some relief plan. How- ever, we can not become cynical be- cause of the inadequacies evidenced by those who govern us. Here we have the occasion to show that the minds and thoughts of the students…



