Many in England Oppose British Refusal to Establish a Jewish Army, Laski States

Criticism against the British Government for not allowing the establishment of a Jewish Army is leveled by Harold J. Laski, noted British author and professor of political science at London University, in an article published in the Boston Globe today.

“Many in England,” Mr. Laski writes, “are deeply disturbed at the graceless refusal of Lord Moyne, the Colonial Secretary, to allow the Jews in Palestine to raise their own army in any theater of war the British Government might suggest. The supposed need to be tender to Arab susceptibilities is regarded as moonshine by some of the most experienced administrators in this field; and the Arab sensitiveness to which we have been most tender is that of the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, who was, when last heard of, in Berlin concerting plans against us with his natural leader. It is no accident that when, in the Arab rebellion, it was made clear that we really meant to govern, Arab intransigeance ceased. Those Jewish pioneers who ask no more than the privilege of dying for Great Britain are surely entitled to a deeper magnanimity than received.”