Ironic comment on Great Britain’s “realistic” politics in Palestine characterized the editorials appearing today in several American journals addressed to enlightened opinion. The liberal journals, looked to for significant comment on the White Paper, expressed sympathy for both Jewish and Arabic causes, and with their tendency to give the preference to the underdog, in this instance favored the Jews, who seemed the most unjustly treated in the situation.
The New Republic for November 5, after a review of the Simpson report and the action following its publication, says, “Few public statements of policy in modern times have been followed by such universal and violent protests as this. While the British government has announced that it will stick to its guns, nothing is more certain than that it cannot do so in the long run, in the face of such opposition as has been created.”
Little hope is held out for the success of Lord Passfield’s policy in an editorial in the October 29 number of the Outlook. “While asking for cooperation from the Arabs, cooperation and concessions from the Zionists, he announces that the British government in Palestine will forsake the old policy of letting ‘economic and social forces operate with a minimum of interference and control’,” says the Outlook.
“Yet there is doubt that the new British policy will bring peace and prosperity to Palestine any more than did the old policy of ‘muddling through.'”
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