Great Britain and the East, periodical which frequently mirrors the views of the Colonial Office, warned editorially today that Zionist attempts “to sabotage and reverse the Government policy” on Palestine were doomed to failure. Commenting on the forthcoming World Zionist Congress at Geneva, the magazine declared that the problem to be faced by the Congress was that the Jews were confronted with the possibility that after a lapse of five years immigration to Palestine “may cease altogether.”
Declaring that it was certain that the British decision, as embodied in the White Paper, would be vehemently assailed at the Congress, the editorial continued: “What the dispassionate person will look for is some sign of constructive statesmanship: some sign, that is, that the Zionist will not confine themselves to kicking against pricks but will examine means and ways of cooperating with the mandatory power and especial with the million Palestine Arabs among whom the Jews have to live. Attempts by the Zionists to sabotage and reverse the Government policy are patently bound to fail.
“The upbuilding process of the national home is nearly at an end; it is keeping up the home to which the wiser Zionists, once they have survived the disappointment arising from the new Government policy, will address their thoughts. Solidity of the nation easily precedes in importance any futile denunciation of the mandatory power.”
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