While a subscription list to pay the $400 fine levied on the Hebrew daily “Davar” for contempt of court is growing, a leading editorial in today’s issue quotes the prosecutor at the “Davar’s” trial as saying that the Palestine community forms a cosmopolitan proletariat coming from such countries where there is no confidence in justice, unlike countries under British rule.
The “Davar’s” editorial emphasizes that the Jews had law and justice long before such a thing as British justice ever existed.
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