The Anglo-American committee on Palestine was declared today to be without “lawful foundation” in an article appearing in the Moscow periodical “New Times,” which asked who had given the committee authority to solve the Palestine problem “without the participation of the directly interested parties.”
The article quoted Dr. Albert Einstein’s statement at the inquiry committee hearings in Washington that the committee was a “smokescreen” covering British policy to excite artificially enmity between Jews and Arabs in Palestine in order to preserve British domination, and added that the future of the Jews in Europe depends not on immigration to Palestine, but on eradication of fascism and racialism.
The reference to the inquiry committee and Palestine were contained in a section–headed “Mysterious Commission”–of a lengthy article dealing with the problems facing the Arab League. It said in part:
“What are the lawful foundations for the functioning of the Anglo-American Commission on Palestine and who gave it authority to solve the problem without the participation of the directly interested parties! The Arab public is indignant at the attempts made to solve the Palestine problem behind their back. It is hardly possible to justify the necessity for the existence of the Anglo-American Commission, especially at a moment when the mechanism of the United Nations Organization has started to function.”
Listing some of the latest developments around the Arab League the article stated: “Another test for the Arab League is the Palestine question. It is clear that the creation of normal conditions for the life and future of the Jews in Europe does not depend on the quote of Jewish immigration into Palestine but on the energetic extermination of fascism and liquidation of racial fanaticism and its consequences–on real help to the Jewish populations.
“On the other hand the problem of Palestine has acquired such a sharp character because the difference of interests of England and America in the Near East is reflected in it. It must be recognized that during the short time it has existed the Arab League’s activities have not yet produced really positive results from the viewpoint of defense of the interests of Arabian countries.
“In the sharp political situation which is forming in these countries the near future will show to what measure the league will justify the hopes of those who wish to see in it active support for the unity and independence of the Arab lands,” the article concluded.
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