ORTHODOX JEWS IN PALESTINE
SM.—There has been in recent years a severe divergence between the average British and the average American view on Palestine. The letter of Mr. Jacob Heller from Boston, Massachusetts, in the Spectator of June 24th, expresses with admirable brevity and sincerity the views of most of us who have had experience in Palestine.
Many British lives—civil, military and police—have been laid down striving for the right of the Orthodox Jews, equally with those of the Moslem and Christian denominations, to practise their religion and to worship at their shrines " free of annoyance or molestation." The cloak of Jewish religion closely swathed about the body of world-wide political Zionism was always transparent to us. It would appear that the cloak has now been cast aside and even trampled on.
Is it too late to hope that Mr. Heller's simple appeal may sow a seed on his side of the Atlantic which will mature eventually to enable all the peoples of Palestine to " pursue the even tenor of their ways, serving
man and God." ?—Yours faithfully, H. ARMSTRONG. Ingleton 'louse, Crowborough, Sussex.
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