Harold Laski Assails Colonial Office for Delaying Jewish Army

Assailing the “pettifogging evasions of the Colonial Office in connection with Palestine,” Harold Laski, British economist, today scored the Government for its refusal to create a Jewish Army, in an article in Reynolds News.

“Although I am not a Zionist and I feel that it is a mistake to urge Palestine as a solution of the Jewish problem.” Laski stated, “as a Jew I am deeply resentful of the ungracious, delaying tactics of the Colonial Office. The real truth is that the officials both in Palestine and here cannot bear the refusal of the Jews in Palestine to act like ‘natives’.”