DESPERATE MINORITY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26349, 2 January 1947, Page 5

DESPERATE MINORITY

LEADERS NOT HEEDED FAITH PLACED IN VIOLENCE (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 30. Britain is not to be coerced by the Irgun Zvai Leumi’s floggings, says The Times in a leading article. Until the outrages cease onerous regulations must be imposed on the civil population. The search for suspects must \ continue, and the everyday life of peaceful citizens must be subjected to increasing inconvenience. These are not the worst consequences, it continues. There is a growing spirit of defiance among Palestine’s youth, a hatred of constituted authority and a faith in violence which argue ill for the future well-being of the Jewish State so ardently desired. Britain is not the enemy. The next enemy may be the Arabs or even a Jewish Government itself. The continued terrorism shows that the Jewish community in Palestine is insufficiently disciplined, to enable the policy of its recognised leaders to prevail against the recalcitrance of an _ armed and desperate minority in spite of the damage to the Jewish cause this entails.