The Jews should seek to reach a direct understanding with the Arab masses and thus diminish the Palestine government’s function as the protecting judge of Jewish-Arab interests, Professor Albert Einstein told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s correspondent in response to a question of what the Jews should do in the present Palestine situation.
Dr. Einstein, who yesterday agreed to deliver an international radio address on Palestine under the auspices of Avukah said “I believe it possible to reach such an understanding.” Referring to the White Paper, Dr. Einstein feels that the “British government has done an injustice to the Jews. I believe that the Palestine administration has not loyally fulfilled the obligations of the Mandate.
BRITAIN’S INJUSTICE TO JEWS
“The British government has not handled the Palestine question with objectivity, which is the most that was expected. It is however gratifying that British public opinion is not sold and that voices are raised in favor of justice.” As for the negotiations now in progress between the British government and the Jewish Agency, Dr. Einstein is of the opinion that the outcome will be “only paper resolutions and it cannot be foreseen how they will be executed. The Arabs should feel that the Palestine Jews do not live on British bayonets or on British decision.”
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