ARAB UNREST.
INTENSIFIED BY SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE; It would not be true to say that agricultural science has been the cause of Arab unrest in Palestine, but it has been one of the causes, writes Sir W. Beach Thomas in the ”Spectator.” Specialists came over to England and took back to Palestine from Rothamsted, the agricultural research station, what secrets were known of the best ways to make the desert blossom as the rose and 44 rivers of oil and wine flow as the Book assures.” Research stations were set up in Palestine itself, and land that was barren or bore what Goldsmith called 44 half a tillage,” became productive and thereby much more valuable. New machines as well as new chemicals had helped to the transformation. The more primitive husbandmen who had sold their land could not help looking on its new worth with envy. They had lost not only what they loved, but a thing much' more valuable than they had guessed when they owned it. Such feelings (which are wholly natural) do not tend to friendship with the supplanters.
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Wairarapa Age, 2 September 1936, Page 4
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