TREATMENT OF ARABS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 74, 24 February 1938, Page 9

TREATMENT OF ARABS.

BRITISH POLICY ATTACKED. LONDON, Feb. 1. A bitter attack on British policy in Palestine is made in the Nineteenth Century, by Mr E. T. Richmond, former director of antiquities in Palestine. ' 1

In an article headed “Dictatorship in the Holy Land,” Mr Richmond' writes:—“The Palestine Government for 20 years has exasperated the Arabs beyond endurance. They first goad the Arab into violence, then shoot and hang him as a rebel. That has been, and still is, our line. The Arabs will not yield. The more brutally we repress them, the less repressible will they prove. Every man, woman and child in every class is violently opposed to us.

“It is childish to contend that Britain’s troubles with the Arabs are due to foreign propaganda. They see and feel our deeds. Women and children see husbands and fathers doomed for the crime of standing up for their religion and country.”