An exchange of the Jewish populations of, Syria and Egypt for the Arab population of Israel was recommended today by Prof. Edwin Samuel, for 30 years an official of the British Administration in Palestine, in the first of a series of lectures presented at the Dropsie College here. Prof. Samuel is in this country at the invitation of Dropsie to lecture on the Middle East.
“In view of the difficulty of welding Jews and Arabs into a homogeneous state,” Prof. Samuel declared, and “great as the prices would be in immediate human suffering, it might be wiser to arrange for an exchange of populations.” He asserted that the question of Israeli frontiers was tied up with the Arab refugee problem. “If the Arab refugees returned to Israel, the land problem for the new immigrants would remain acute and the boundaries for the new state would have to be cast in a wider frame,” he added.
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