Lord Strabolgi, prominent Laborite and journalist, has suggested that the British Government arm 100,000 Jews for self-defense as a solution of the Palestine problem. He spoke at a meeting in Hull, one of several called over the week-end to protest Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany.
The Times this morning published a lengthy summary of the Palestine situation by its Jerusalem correspondent, who declared there was little likelihood of the problem being settled by the forthcoming negotiations because of the “hopelessly irreconcilable” terms projected by Arabs and Jews.
The correspondent, asserting terrorism was continuing, urged more effective military control “because no matter how a solution is reached no immediate cessation of the disturbances may be expected.” He declared it was a great mistake to envisage the disturbances as solely an Arab–Jewish issue, pointing out that “clumsy Italian propaganda” had been replaced by more subtle, organized Nazi propaganda in the Near East.
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