The “Osservatore Romano,” the official organ of the Vatican, publishes an article from its Jerusalem correspondent on the position of Catholic education in Palestine.
“Palestine,” he writes, “is covered with a network of Protestant and heretical schools, and the great intellectual battle which the Zionist revival is preparing to carry on along the whole front is at hand. The Hebrew University at Jerusalem aims at a monopoly of higher culture in Palestine. In Europe there is too much inclination to consider this new Semitic appearance with an air of scepticism. Actually, the matter is a very serious one. The Jews are working in Palestine bravely and in earn##est. The Faculties of their University are about to begin their new campaign for a spiritual revenge. The Arabs can offer no real resistance. Their show of opposition will not stop the Zionis## progress by one step. The Moslem aristocrac## will frequent the courts of the new Hebrew Atheneum in spite of their repeated declarations of racial hostility.”
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