The New Republic today editorially denounced the “cruel and bungling” bureaucracy in Palestine for seeking the revocation of naturalization of Eri Theodore Jabotinsky, son of Vladimir Jabotinsky.
Recalling that young Jabotinsky had helped 2,400 refugees marooned in the lower Danube to enter Palestine “because the alternative seemed to be to let them down and die where they were,” the editorial said:
“Now the British administration of Palestine has not only sentenced Jabotinsky to prison, but is threatening to revoke his Palestinian citizenship…It is easy to see why the British acted as they did; they are playing pro-Arab politics for imperial reasons; the Arabs don’t like to see additional immigrants, most of whom are Jews, come into Palestine. But bureaucracy so cruel and bungling as this defeats its own purpose.”
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