Jewry v. Arabs

Their hearts aflame with resentment at Britain's "temporary suspension" of Jewish immigration to the "national Jewish homeland" in Palestine, more than 25,000 Jews marched last week down Manhattan's smart Fifth Avenue singing Hatikvah, Israel's "Song of Hope."

At Madison Square, No. 1 U. S. Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise stirred Hebrew blood with these ringing words: "The day may come when England will need friends in Palestine--they should be the Jews and not the Arabs!"

Meanwhile, addressing the League of Nations Mandates Commission last week in Swiss Geneva, Great Britain's colonial Undersecretary of State Dr. T. Drummond Shiels quietly explained that Britain wants both Jews and Arabs for friends, that the "suspension" of Jewish immigrants to Palestine which has so aroused international Jewry is indeed "temporary," and by no means permanent. Stoutly he declared: "We believe that they [Jews and Arabs] can . . . and must be reconciled.

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