JEWISH STATE

Grey River Argus, 31 January 1946, Page 5

JEWISH STATE

ADVERSE OPINIONS Given at Inquiry LONDON. Jan. 29. Dr Maude Royden, giving evidence before the Anglo-American Committee on Palestine said: “The worst offence of Zionism is that its leaders are leading Jewry into a land where they are deeply hated, and will need a standing army to prevent massacres and pogroms as dreadful as the horrors already inflicted on them.”

Dr Royden recalling her experiences in Palestine in 1939, said she found no case for Zionism at all. No benefits which the Arabs might reap from the presence of Jews could compensate for the horrors of civil war. The claim that Palestine must be industrialised was one which the Arabs must settle themselves. An agricultural country with comparative poverty was better off than an industrial one with civil war. “If Jews claim rights because it is their Holy land, Christians can lay similar claims.”

A Labour Commoner, Mr Thomas Reid, opposed the idea of the Jewish state, arguing it was unwise, utterly impracticable and unjust for pressure to be brought on Arabs to leave Palestine and make room for Jews. The Arabs were people who should say how many Jews should be admitted to Palestine.

The committee, after hearing on previous days, representatives of nine British Jewish organisations urging Palestine should become a Jewish state, to-day heard witnesses opposing the Zionist, deal.

JEWS’ RAID ON ARMOURY FAILS.

(Rec. 6.30). JERUSALEM, Jan. 29. A number of Jewish labourers, employed at the armoury at the Aquir aerodrome, are being held for interrogation, following on a raid for arms on the ’drome. Paratroops who pursued the terrorists force dthem to abandon a truck from which six hundred Sten guns and Maxim guns were recovered. The raiders escaped in a jeep. JEWISH DEMANDS MUNICH CONFERENCE (Rec. 7.5) LONDON, Jan. 30. An international Jewish conference held in Munich concluded after unanimously passing the following resolutions: “That all of the Jews wishing to leave Europe for Palestine should be evacuated immediately, and that the United Nations are urged forthwith to establish an organisation to carry out that task.” “That a Jewish State should be established in Palestine immediately.”