America has a good case in international law to demand compensation for the life and property of American victims of the Palestine outbreak, declares an article in the London “Nation.”
The article cites as precedent the New Orleans case, where America paid compensation to Italy for not having taken sufficient precautions when a number of acquitted Italian prisoners were lynched by a mob. If compensation is paid the American government, it can scarcely resist paying compensation to Palestinians as well.
“The Jewish-Arab problem is just as large or as small as the British government allows it to be,” states the article. “The Palestine administration is largely responsible for the creation of Arab nationalism, because it created the impression that it was entirely an open question whether Great Britain adopted a Zionist or an Arab policy.” The article goes on to blame Sir Herbert Samuel, former High Commissioner, for a weak policy toward the Arabs which led, it says, to the present difficulties.
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