Wedgwood Says Palestine Will Be Battleground if Rommel Drives Through Egypt

If Gen. Erwin Rommel’s forces drive through Egypt or ”somebody else drives down through Asia,” Palestine will become a battleground and every man and woman there ”will have a knife at their throat,” it was stated by Lord Wedgwood, addressing a Zionist meeting here.

Deploring the War Office’s refusal to arm the Jews of Palestine, Wedgwood declared that the Palestinian Jews, who are not even allowed to form homeguard units, could supply three divisions.” He criticized the official explanation that no equipment was available for a Jewish force, and denounced ”appeasement of the Arabs.”