ARAB AND JEW

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1937, Page 15

ARAB AND JEW

ADDRESS ON PALESTINE

An interesting address on the ArabJewish situation in Palestine was delivered <;o the Wellington Rotary Club at its luncheon yesterday by Mr. W. H. Kerridge, M-A-. Mus.Bac, of England.

Jealousy and fear, he stated, were the reasons for the belligerent attitude adopted by the Arabs last year. The Jewish city of Tel Aviv was probably the finest, from the architectural point of view, in the world. "It is so supremely new," lie said,1 "that it takes one's breath away." Tel Aviv was practically an extension north of Jaffa, the Arab settlement, and it was this close proximity of such a magnificent city to the considerably less attractive Jaffa that had largely caused the Arabs to revolt.

The excuse the Arabs offered, that the Jews were overrunning the territory, causing them to be cramped for room, was most unconvincing. A fear of Jewish money and Jewish science was the underlying cause.

Those Jews who dwelt in parts of Palestine other than Tel Aviv were constantly harried by Arab snipers and a guard had to be placed in the Jewish homes each night.

Even though they lived in such an up-to-date city the Jews were well behind the times as far as clothes were concerned, Mr. Kerridge stated, and up to the present had been unable to devise any sort of suitable clothing for the summer.

Mr. Kerridge stated that on one occasion, while he was delivering a lecture at Tel Aviv, an Arab bomb landed a short distance from the Observatoire in which he was speaking.