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“observer” Criticizes Holmes’ and Samuel’s Palestine Books

April 29, 1930
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The one thing in common these books have is bitter criticism of the Palestine administration” writes the London “Observer” in commenting on the recent Palestine books of John Haynes Holmes and Maurice Samuel. “The bitterness comes as an unpleasant surprise, for to readers of the Shaw Commission’s report such anti-British sentiments are extremely unjust” says the “Observer.”

“Dr. Holmes ignores the fact that had British arms not conquered Palestine the task of the Zionists would have been infinitely more difficult and perhaps impossible. Maurice Samuel ignores the obligations of the Mandatory power to the Arabs.” The “Observer” notes that “Dr. Holmes stayed only three weeks in Palestine and Maurice Samuel made two visits” and that “both made judgments of Arab and Jewish relations with the British that are far removed from the Shaw report.”

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