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The “White Paper,” just issued by the British government and interpreting its attitude towards Palestine problems, is denounced as a “Black Paper,” insofar as the Jewish people is concerned, in editorials in the “Jewish Day” and “Jewish Morning Journal,” the latter signed by Jacob Fishman.

“Another little step and nothing will remain of the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate except two empty, worthless ‘White Papers’ that one throws into the waste-basket,” says the “Day,” which continues:

“A few days ago a Left-Labor member in the British parliament accused the Labor Government of ‘doing the dirty work of British imperialism.’ He said it with regard to its activities in India. ‘It is fated to do the dirty work of all European and Arabic anti-Semites’—this may be said with regard to its activity in Eretz Israel. For no anti-Semitic outburst throughout the world has ever caused the Jewish people such deep pain as this ‘White Paper,’ which reveals so cynically the game played by England in its Mandate policies.”

JEWS DISAPPOINTED IN MACDONALD

Speaking of the disappointment of the Jewish people in the MacDonald government, the “Day” editorial says:

“No other government would have acted so as to give the impression that the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate were given for one purpose only, that of protecting the Arabs from the Jews. No statesmanlike British government would have allowed itself to speak of ‘depriving the native population of land.’ All anti-Semitic national saviors, wherever they may be, are always saving the ‘native’ population from the alien ‘aggressors’—the Jews. If this is everywhere a lie, it is a thousandfold a lie in Palestine, where the effendis are the expropriators and where the Jews pay with gold for every stony, swampy parcel that they buy. We do not mean to say that the British government consists of anti-Semites, but that makes it all the worse for it: while itself not anti-Semitic, England is doing the dirty anti-Semitic work.

WOULD INDICT ENGLAND

“There is a World Court in Europe. If it has to be, we shall indict England before this Court. For in the England of MacDonald there is no sense of righteousness, justice and responsibility for a promise given by a government. But there is still a sense of justice in the World Court. And there we hope to come out the victors. Our victory may perhaps seem miraculous—as the victory of the weaker over the stronger. But that miracle will have to occur.”

Jacob Fishman in the “Jewish Morning Journal” says:

BALFOUR DECLARATION WHITTLED

“The whittling down of the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate goes forward until nothing more than a shadow will remain of it. The government has swallowed the whole report of the Shaw Commission with all its abominable conclusions about the ‘innocence’ of the Mufti, of the Arab Executive, of the Palestine government. It will also ‘investigate’ the libel that the Histadruth passes only such Chalutzim as are Socialistically inclined, and will soon issue a statement with regard to the influence of the Zionist Executive with the Palestine government. What that means one can imagine. That is a hint that the Executive will lose its last remaining prestige and influence with the Palestine government.

“It seems as if it were useless to ‘negotiate’ further with the MacDonald cabinet, for behind all these things one see an attempt to appease the Jews with smooth phrases.”