The Wanganui Chronicle. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1947. THE JEWS HAVE IT.

Wanganui Chronicle, 30 September 1947, Page 4

The Wanganui Chronicle. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1947. THE JEWS HAVE IT.

’’pilE forthcoming retirement of the British Administration from Palestine is the appropriate answer to the world that saddled Britain with an impossible task. The two British sergeants that were hanged by the Jews in August are being vindicated. Britain does not consider Palestine, the Arabs or the Jews or their mutual peace and prosperity a prize worthy of innocent British blood. That terrible crime perpetrated in cold blood against innocent men that would have shocked the world had it been directed against the nationals of any other nation than Britain, has had its repercussion. The Jews can have Palestine to-day with all its crime, its human scum, its murders and its ingratitude. Britain held the mandate to govern Palestine. This was a directive from the League of Nations. The acceptance of the mandate loaded Britain with responsibilities, and when a country accepts responsibilities it must make decisions in relation thereto. Britain never exceeded her responsibilities: she played the part of the policeman. No doubt the Administration living continually under the threat of terrorist action became nervous and—as do all administrations—made its mistakes through sometimes misjudging situations. But in the main the assistance, which the police at all times are entitled to expect from the public whom they serve, was not forthcoming. The Jews or an unruly portion of them made war upon the British troops, the mass of the population did too little to help the British when they did not actively help the terrorists. The Arabs watched the fight in which they gained’satisfaction in seeing the Jews destroy the strong volume of sympathy which previously had supported them in their efforts to secure a historic national home for themselves.

The attitudes of the chief interested parties made the situation difficult enough. But that was not all with which Britain had to contend. A strong abusive organisation of Jewish people in the United States was exercising pressure upon American political life to the detriment of Anglo-American relations at a time when the harmony of those relations was the essential element in the settlement of the world economic problem, then fast moving to a condition of crisis. Fearing that his Presidential opponent would take the stop Mr. Truman, despite his being the President of a friendly nation, made a request to Britain that was inappropriate coming from him and highly embarrassing to the British mandatory rule in Palestine. Palestine had become a football game in American party polities and the British were expected to be the football. Money collected in America found its way to Europe, there to be used to finance a continent-wide network for sending people to Palestine in ships engaged in illegal trade, while France and Italy as well as other less friendly States allowed these embarrassing operations to be conducted from their ports and harbours. When illegal immigrants were returned to France, the country of their embarkation, they were not acceptable to the French people and the transfer of these people to Hamburg became necessary.

AVhy should British soldiers he subjected to abuse, to misrepresentation and to assault and battery for ths sake of a race of ingrates? The game is not worth the. candle. Having been taught in blood this lesson the British have returned to the United States as successors of the League of Nations Ihe responsibility which has for too long been carried.

Those who can find it in their hearts to speak of “The chains of British Imperialism” falling from subject peoples will now be presented with yet another example of what is the nature of those imperialistic chains. The Indians have found that those chains were protective activities for the weak and thousands of dead men and women and hundreds and thousands of homeless wanderers over the face of India bear witness to the nature of the freedom they have gained. So will it be witli Palestine! That, however, is the affair of those who have asked for it. They, having sown the wind of disruption, must reap the whirlwind of riot and civil disorder. The strife may not remain internecine. Nearby Arab countries may join in the conflict, in which case the Jewish population may conceivably be ejected with the accompaniment of as much heedless crime as is marring and scarring Indian life to-dav.

It will be difficult for any country to take up the role in Palestine to be laid down by the United Kingdom. America long ago withdrew her troops from the country notwithstanding the com'plicated nature of the situation there. France is in no condition to take up the task and has not sufficient experience nor the temperament to shoulder such a responsibility. Russia stands by with her promise of slave camps which now hold from 15 millions to 30 millions of people. Possibly the Jews will prefer such a rule to that which they have destroyed. However, that is their affair. Having broken down the best that was offering in an imperfect world. Palestine Jewry faces an uncertain future devoid of that sympathy and support which previously was a marked feature of the best of British public opinion. The non-terrorist sections of Palestine Jewry must now take up the task- of protecting themselves from their own criminal classes as well as building up some barrier against an inflow of a great Arab sea. The dangers to be apprehended to-day. therefore, are disintegration from within and swamping by the Arab sea from without. It may soon appear that those who wore denied entry into the country by the British will consider themselves to be the more fortunate members of their race.