[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—To the small body
of Englishmen who are sufficiently conversant with the deplorable situation in Palestine to appreciate the full enormity of injustice responsible for it, your publication of letters such as that of Mr. C. R. Ashbee, in your issue of July 17th, brings fresh -hope and reawakened confidence in minds that are sick with disgust. What do I
mean by " deplorable situation " I mean a situation in which the British Government have promised to the Zionists what they cannot possibly perform with honesty—if, indeed, at all—and I mean that in their attempt to perform it they have so unfairly harassed the Arabs that they have brought them into insurrection and are now shooting them down. Deplorable !
Before worse things happen, the Zionist Policy and its smoke-screen the Balfour Declaration, must be reconsidered. It cannot be envisaged by the British Constitution that a Policy of this nature may be conceived by a few British statesmen on the one hand and a Jew on the other, and then carried out, and the whole transaction be concealed from the
nation.—I am, &c., E. L. POPHAM (Colonel), Palestine Administration, 1918-1920 Ilemyoek, Nottingham Road, Natal. (Resigned).
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