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‘nazi Methods’ Charged by Mrs. John Gunther

March 11, 1940
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The charge that Britain’s handling of the Palestine problem is “disturbingly reminiscent of Nazi methods at their worst” is voiced in a letter by Mrs. John Gunther, published by the New York Times today.

Mrs. Gunther, wife of the noted journalist and an organizer of the American Friends of a Jewish Palestine, ridicules the “British insinuation” making the Jews “the sole cause of Arab disorders,” pointing out that in Syria, “where there is no Jewish problem, there have been at least 13 national revolutions since 1920.”

“As long as the British speak in terms of democracy and Leagues of Nations and Federations of Europe,” her letter concludes, “and continue to act in terms of conquest and dictatorship and imperial domination, their American friends must become more gravely and more increasingly concerned.”

Rabbi Wolf Gold, chairman of the Mizrachi World Center in Jerusalem, who is now visiting this country, condemned the land act in a statement charging that Britain has made “a scrap of paper of the Balfour Declaration.”

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