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SI0EUGHT OS THE.ARAB QUESTION Twice I had the opportunity of visiting French North Africa, primarily the great Arab protectorates of Algeria and Tunisia. The second time, mose especially, I •was enabled by the courtesy of Historic World Meeting to Open Sessions on the authorities of both, the Com' August 3 pugnie Transatlantique and the French Colonial office Jto. view both freely and intimately .: the Zurich, Switzerland' (JTA) — life and administration of the twoTraced with the most momentous countries. I was on no govern-[ problems since the historic meetment tour. I was entirely- free. ing in 1921 when the Balfour deMoreover speech is free "wherever claration on Palestine was acthe French flag files, ana no onecepted, hundreds of delegates * gathered here this week from all is intimidated, and the Arabs vrho have made any beginning i Q quarters of the globe for the oppolitical thinking of any kind, ening of the twentieth biennial who have even partially awak- World Zionist Congress next kened from that secular doze in Tuesday (August 3). . •which as a whole the Arab peo- oOne-, of ..the bitterest struggles ple is Wrapped ^— these men allin-the'history of the. Zionist spoke fluent French, so that no movement Was in the of£iftg, over interpreter -was needed. Great Britain's, proposal to end These' North African Arabs, the present League . o£ Nations , perhaps only because they have mandate for Palestine and partibeen, out from under Turkish and tion the holy land into Jewish other maladministration for 107 and Arab States and a British years in Algeria and for nearly mandated territory. . Despite the appeal of the words 70 years in Tunisia, present the dormant Arab culture on a high-j "Jewish state," many _ delegates

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Tho forty-fifth, anniversary of "England is solving her own! p r o t ,iem. The chance o imperialistic problems r a t h e r j J e w a n d A r a b togetb.Ei.i3 new t h e E n d i n g of the Omaha Hethan the problems of-Palestine," more difficult." brew Club ana the installation of according- to Mr. Irving Soref, Mr. Soref emphasized the feel- new officers will ba obssrved'at who is visiting his parents in ing in. Palestine that Great Britafter-i Omaha after living three years in ain, rather than helping found a an open meeting S at a collective colony in Palestine. Jewish Homeland as promised in n o a August *•*? ° ' "If- there is to be a Jewish It h e ' B a l f o u r . Dac'laration has done hortjeland and if Palestine wants everything to hinder. The Hszomir -Singing Society peace, it can come only through Jewish industry has been disclose cooperation with the Arabs. couraged by allowing the nana- j will present a program at this Economically the Arabs have jf a c t U red goods of other countries I meeting and Abraham Dansky ploy several piano selections. much in common with the Jews. to come in duty-free while a heaThe Arab feudal lords alarmed vy import tax was placed on all Past president, Nathan S. Tafby the possibility of the Arab and in-coming raw materials and ma-fe, will act as installing officer. Jewish worker uniting emphasize chinery. Exports, such as oranges After . the meeting refreshments the national difference to keep have as heavy a duty in England will be served. the two apart. as the oranges of California arid ! T \ i s moeing is open to meai"Partition will not solve the Spain. • bers and their wives. The Partition was decided upon, Mr. Soref believes,- for two • ^ 7 r O ' reasons. "The government has be-i come displeased with the Grand j Mufti, leader . of the pan-Arabic j movement, vmo has become an j

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the Arabs. By ' announcing the tioning at Ciiat ~ " i **' Emir Abdullah, a staunch friend the proposed ' of England, king of the new Arab mandate, a ic\ ( ^ ^ o sailing for the 2 C state the power of the Mufti is Congressmen Aroused b y S e Boys at Camp Prepare to ReJ ' • • " among them the Americans led er plane thaijj do the Arabs of r diminished. Secondly, England is - d ' gress. Justice r "~ peat Their Overnight ports cf Semi-Military Palestine. Moreover thers is a by Dr. Stephen S. "Wise, came not interested in having Jews and to have espres ~7 T Hike much larger urban population ! pledged to fight against tha BritCamps in U. S. Arabs together. The Palestinian an -uncompron •—c: ~not- only in the large cities o f i i s h Government -plan, which of 'partition. 1- - ' Despite the inhospitable mo- Arab youth is becoming western•Tunis a"nd Algiers but in Cou-hvould confine the Jews to a strip "Washington, D. C. (WX.S) — Etantine and Biskra, in Souse and J of ground comprising about one squitoes encountered at Hummel ized by its contact with tha The Departments of Justice and to have told Dr s\ Jews." itancy and \VQ\ C Sfax. AIL of these cities, be it third of the Holy Land and ex-Park in the course of an overMr. Soref, while in Palestine. State have taken under consider- moment may 1 i night hike a week ago Thursday, cluding Jerusalem. noted are twin cities.' There is in dairy farming at a ation a request by Representative Quenc.es. A strr"^ r c Nevertheless, strong sentiment- the older boys at Camp Akiba are specialized the Arab city in each case;-there collective colony. At this colony William M. Citron of Connecticut orposition is f t b" t is the French or European city, was epxected to develop probab- planning"" another, venture. each person works in return for that they • investigate the estab- he feels. Leaving the Jewish Communcities, or> if you like; quar- ly under the condition that adfood, clothing, medical attention, lishment of 21 Nazi military ity Center by trucks the boys preexisE' in peace and economic ditional concessions in the way and other necessities. Each year a training, camps in various parts cooperation side by side cCnd are of territory and other matters be pared their supper immediately vacation budget is drawn up andof the country. upon arrival at the Park. After- j divided culturally along the lines granted to the Jew'k At the same time Representa- j P ' r j r y — " """7 divided among the work'T7 ~ of the two parallel civilizations Dr. Chaim Weizmann" president wards they hiked through tha ]ers, for their leave. tive Martin Dies cf Texas Intro' uLLLrepresented. The Arabs have cul- of the World Zionist Organization countryside and played games in The children live in the child- j duced a-resolution in the House ^ tural -autonomy. T h e Kadi's and of the Jewish Agency for Pal- the open. ren's house where they are under | calling for a Congressional laves- | The Mosquitoes appeared on courts function. Moscjuesare clos^ estine, official representative of the supervision of trained nurses, j tigation of the un-American, ELCed to Europeans, including* the the Jews in dealing with the the scene after the boys ' had The collectives in each area main- j tivities of Nazis, Fascists, White French, in Tunisia; they are open League of Nations and. British made, their beds outside' to sleep, tain a district school where high i Russians and Communists in this to visitors in Algeria. These Government, had not committed as countless poets have recom- school subjects' are taught and j country. Both Congressmenâcted xabs are probably in a contem- himself up to a short time before mended, under the stars. d after ft protests t t developed d l d against i t sense free men under the Congress opened. Following breakfast the boys where the students do light agri- the opening of a new Nazi camp I ^ ( cultural work. ^ Have Key Fc-* en In 71"" rFrench rule than they have" ever returned to the Center. Opponents of partition -were at Andover, N. J. XJ. S. Senator ! been before In all their history, particularly encouraged by t t e The Registration at Camp Aki- "The collectives' are no .longer Srnathers of N. J. doubtToJ~~ •whether as provincials of the Cal-action of Parliament, which had ba has been holding up despite an experiement. The colony of | necessity of an inquiry, iphate or under their own barbar- balked at. indorsing the British the fact several of the campers Dagania Aleph, in reality a part ous and bloody tyrants the DeyGovernment's partition plans, have gone with their parents However most of Algiers anil the Bey of Tunis. sidetracking, them . and . referring trips out-of-town.: : ; Ii. iait^'the";sd-'irtKo'-"matter;-t6f-the-'jLiEaguejo'f:-:Na-i' of them- upon their -Tetura- Omaha, re-register for the camp. called called radical 'defenders- of the tibns': "Work on the carnival and op- j members Palestinian. Arabs forget. Liber-j The eyes of the delegates were proval in the "Lr •" " \t ate Palestine, Tunis Algiers, Mor- j consequently turned toward Ge- eretta, which will be the closing | working for an ideal and not bear. Council of the 7 monetary return." features of the Camp, are under occo from the European yoke and j neva, where today (Friday) the ment's partition ~ - V/hen Mr. Soref first went to what do you do to the .people? League Mandates Commission way, and the 'Toy Band' is re- Palestine .Kansas City, Mo. (WNS) — newspaper Lur." thousands of immihearsing the overture. was to hear the British Colonial You plunge them back into turto demonstrate the dif-! ^-ovcrnricnt nor. *• 1 The Camp is under the direc- grants were entering and the Seeking bulent medieval feuds of which Secretary "William G. ,*A. Onasbyerence between Nazi -Germany) noum?n:a vrill country was in the throes of a the victor is not unlikely to re- Gore present the partition plan. tion of Ruth Allen. boom. With the Ethiopian w a r j and t h v united States, the Rev. s l t i o n i n vive the fine old Arab govern- The mandates body wag to study and the" fear England' would be iL - M - Eirkhead, Kansas City ar.ti- ] d e b a t e O a p a r t i . mental methods of cutting off it and -make' recommendations to pastor, telegraphed Dr. Hans ! f o r e i g n minister " affected, the situation slowed up'*"••" i; noses, and ears and mass; behead- the League Council, meeting • in and conditions have not as yet jLîc^Khoff, Gernian ambassador : yv'Hl be câ^nzaii 1». C i ings in the royal presence before September. to the United States, for a special ; QCmmission wheimproved. Under the circumstances, the breakfast. The pleasant scene of J visa to Germany which would not ,i i s c i ? s7 the matt -. "To ap] these activities is still shown in Congress sessions, always coloro n e | only permit him to remain in the the pa'ias beylical at Bardo out- ful'and frequently the scene of farms, colonies, and cities, , . . .Berlin (WNS) KareK c]l r aa side of Tanis. / furious debates, promised to be ski, stormy petrel of Georg should see the backward condi| ,f_ *° __ R i t e psriodthere; but | ited allow him toe u norganize t N eStates w T o r tGovei Jewish comEurope. of Eastern f What at all events has never more exciting than tions of branches of the Friends of De- idy called the amunal life in Germany for last Palestine have accornTo receive the delegates, Zur- four years, and for long the Nazi- Jews occurred to the North . African mocracy "among German citizens | Britaits. "to the .Arab, whatever other grievances ich was brightly decked out with appointed dictator over Jewish plished wonderful things." who are • still friendly to liberty c e r n *e]t -;n thj he may think of himself as har-the blue-and-white Jewish na- communal affairs, is believed to and the democratic way of life." j t i o n b y i a r g bouring is that his, underpopu- tional flag. Hundreds ol news- have been eliminated for good YOUNG AND.CHETWOOD Moved to this step by the Tree- j citizens a and v lated lands could not well use im-paper men •— almost one for ev-from organized Jewish life when BOOMED FOR HIGH dorn permitted here to the Ger- \ g -; T e i c s we ha 1 ery delegate —\ were on hand migrants. In Algeria there has man-American Bund, Reverend ; p a s t several rabi he resigned as vice-president of jtlcveloped of course in the more from every major country, every the Berlin Jewish community. COMMISSIONER Birkhsad asked- that the visa • gvnipatheic cons JTiJian hundred,years.of the occu- press service, and most leading specifically authorize him to hold j aspects of the Pf' A former Revisionist, Kareski ' patioh a Franco-Algerian people* papers. propaganda, I gecretarv of Stc London (WNS) — Sir Hubert marches and open was regarded as the major stumThe scene, in which a. recogniz- bling block to Jewish unity. ; It | Young, former British financial j against Nazism and to carry tbe ; Harry H. Soha: - c in Tunisia a Franco-Tunisian people'is? in process of developing. ed independent Jewish governing is understood that he resigned by adminstrator in Iraq, and Field | American Flag and shout slogans \ ja-chief of the Nor is this all. The French have body was to vote on questions of request after the kehillah execu- Marshal Chetwooa, associate of of Jefferson democracy in tho • gra-ns. rather generously kept the doors world Importance subject only to tive had demanded an investiga- the late Field Marshall Alleaby in ' streets of-.Germany. | Replying to £. t open. Italians have* poured in. the dictates of its own conscience tion of the affairs of the Ivriah the conquest, of Palestine, are | Mr. Sohafier urc - c Maltese have poured in. The Ital- and judgment, was •-,' mads the Bank, a., cooperative fiscal insticonsidered the two most likely j HIBERNIANS CONDEMN I tercsssion with ^ ians since Mussolini tightened more striking by the realization tution organized by Kareski in I candidates for the High Comniis,_ 'against the part J S J _*__ *._ .r.. r T : . t „ /their national and cultural lines. that less than- twenty miles away, PALESTINE PARTITION \ tay Hull explain-1 L sionership of Palestine, accerdaThe French dislike that intense- almost visible from / the peaks 1933. in to the Daily. Star, which reThe investigation "was demand: j cd States will "r l y . "Very properly so. The "Arabs around the Lake of Zurich, was Atlantic City, N. J. (WNS) — ! dertalce to cletei are indifferent. This cry. of Pal-Germany, land of oppression, os- ed in response to Kareski's re- ports that England intends to The militaatly anti-British Anc- \ tionship of this z estinian Arab or, rather, of shod- tracism and . disfranchisement of quest that the kehillah guaran- | completely overhaul the Palestine ^ tee the bank's capital. The bank ! administration during the transi-j ieat Order of Hibernians joined • the nc :W prone dy politicians and trouble-makers the Jews. is said to be in financial difficul- tion period leading to the estab- | the anti-Palestine partition forces ; Palestine rntil that he must be left" alone,, that lishment of the Jewish and Arab with, the adoption of a resolution •' opportunity to s ties. . • • - . . . no one must cidine to disturb him at its annual convention express- : report cf the Co states. -—this cry is by all political anaSir Hubert is the candidate of i ing sympathy to the groups in logies a piece of ; gross hypocrisy, the Colonial Office while Lord I Palestine and throughout the government base ; a piece of arrant and unrealistic Chetwood is being pushed by the world who believed in the high- ' also tho ECEDS* nonsense used deliberately, no War Offices. sounding phrases of English pol- : British governu"c matter by whom-it is used, to iticians and met their betrayal in iciplencnt that r Copies of i the recently-publisfibedevil the Jewish people. Warsaw (JTA) •— American The sea quadrant was invented the recently issued report calling | • • • _ . ed "His Struggle" by Irene HarCarefully I questioned Tunis-1 a f l d h a y e b e e n r c c e i v e d i n O m a . Jews' protests to their Govern- by Levi ben Gerson. for the partition of Palestine." iI i-.onaon (."VrNiIan Arabs. The one thing that re-. ha_ F r a u Haraod-is one o t the ment over persecution of Polish. -1 prepared to f igh conclled them more _than they p r o m i n e n t catholic women lead- Jews were indignantly referred to impairs Eritair:Y had been to French rule was. their ers of Austria and has been ac- aa "attempts to interfere in the Mediterranean, internal affairs of Poland" by the pretty exact knowledge of whati t i V e i n t h e m o v e m e n t to-comba tary Anlhon' Gazeta Polska, semi-official Powas going on across the border Anti-Semitism. | House cf Co ram .. - -. Government organ. in Italian Tripolitana and Cyrna| adcresse general In her book, which is a trans- lishCommenting editorially on the ica. There ../as: no cultural and lation "from the German, Frau I a warrincr to It: religious freedom and autonomy Harand refutes the vicious propa- memorandum on Polish persecuLondon (WXS-ralcor Agency) J p i e t | g e there. Arab children were forced ganda of .the Nazis. She recounts tion submitted to "Secretary of KriSersfco:! by ; into Catholic ' schools. Italians the achievements of the Jews and State Cordell Hull by a delega- — Dramatically breaking his i King Hussein." As -British Hi .•were, of .course,- pouring in in pavticularly their* military ser- tion headed by Dr. Stephen S. twenty years ot silence on the i Commissioner of Egypt, Sir KCTthe Gazeta declared: pledge • which ho made on belialf j ry vrro-te a letter to t3se shcrill cf } great masses; tho native Arab various countries in • f- 7 fs /• "Attempts to. interfere in t h e of the British government to the • Mecca in October, 1C13, plcd.îns I population "was diminishing and 1 which they internal affairs of Poland must Arabs during the war. Sir Henry ] British asistanee lor Ara>>. iu>!e-.i receding. Of course it was. MussNot only is the'cruel treatment : olini needs — or thinks.hs needs of the Jews discussed, but Frau provoke the indignation of ~the 3ZcMaIioa made a statesacnt cm-; pendencc in c ^' - , - ' " * — land for Italia'ns.- Who cares Harand devotes several chapters Poles. The policy of the Jews is phatjcally denying that aay prosi-! aspistanê t -"••• ; c 7 ' \<-<" whether, the Tripolitan Arabs to the impossible .situation that surprisingly blind, asking- on'-the. tse whicti he made' to ..Eiisj KKS1 -c:: —. c ^ ' •want to-be left alone or not? The is developing for the Christian one hand Polanu's diplomatic as- ssiii" inclistlca Palestine, i- c: cpseudo-Caesar colonizes. Conse- churches, Protestant and Catho- sistance with regard:to Palestine, ing that his silence has often beers primary j ^ j - T t r " " C"" and .on the other hand-opposing misunderstood and that he there-| time vsh <y<iences to native populatjqris be lic. . ;.. - . Poland's emigration - plans and fore felt bound to make a staic-1 anaer c "vnamnsd. But Palestinian Arabs Copies may he procured at lo- conducting an anti-Polish cam- •ment rcgar;liag tbe .pledges izisdal the has.' fiiust not be disturbed in their cal'bcoic stores. "•-.•. ... "•" paign abroad." io the Arabs, Sir Henry wrote aslI scheme mediaeval somnolence, not even . Retaliation upon Polish Jews follows in an article published in Royal C to their own health, profit, proGreek Diplomat • for the American,protest was sug-tho.'.'liondon. Times: gress. It is'i.ho mos, loathsome !ed that hypocrisy of the age;-..•-•'..-•': Athens (JTA) :The diplo- gested by , ABC,., chief organ of ". "I- 'definitely, and emph'ii-ically i by the E. •| 1 -r Equally^ hvpoiritical and \in- malic representative p£ Greece in the Nara (anti-Semitic National must declare that-Che pi-otmiso to i Arabs a~J J t ^ ^.^ realistic is tho propaganda con- Switzerland will represent, the Radical Party,) which stated that King. Hussein for .Arab srKjepsss-: division c. .. cerning the religious sensibilities Greek Government at the World the-campaign was undoubtedly deuce did not include'•lIa'!!esUji«». j solution ' _* - - elf tho Ar.ib-J. That Jerusalem has Zionist .^rcEs opening in 2ur- inspired by Polish Jev.s aud de-1 I :.I<o Svtl c»si-j re . en i > . t;.-. r.srociations for the Mo-'ich August it v.-as announced' mended the dipcoiery m d pun- r.t the fr. Sh-: T (Continued oh page 3.) here. ishment o£ the culpritc. \ esUa tT.,i

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