Sia,—It - appears as if even serious and well informed authors
lose sense of proportion and of equitable judgment when something relating to the Jewish issue comes into debate. So, for instance, Mr. Nevill Barbour in his recent article in The Spectator on the Arab World says: "A Jewish State . . . differentiated from the environment by language, religion and political orientation would be quite incompatible with the Arab idea and.could only be set up by the prolonged use of force."
At many recent occasions information has been given that the area of Palestine (ten thousand square miles) covers less than one-third of one per cent. of Arab territory, which stretches over three million three hundred thousand square miles (more than the area covered by the U.S.A.) and is inhabited by fifty million people, nine hundred thousand of whom live in Palestine. (Of these, three hundred thousand have Come to the country since the Balfour Declaration was issued).
What would readers say if somebody would address them with the statement that "the State of Luxemburg is quite incompatible with the French idea and could only be safeguarded by the prolonged use of force." Yet the proportion of area as well as population figure of Jewish Palestine is smaller in comparison than that of Luxemburg and Luzern- burgers in relation to France and Frenchmen. It seems that it is con- sidered wise and statesmanlike by various political writers to promote in the Near East and in the Middle East that kind of childish and stupid cult of chauvinistic National Sovereignty which has brought bankruptcy— Political, moral, economic—to Europe.—! am, Sir, Yours truly, 705 Carrington House, Hen ford Street, London, W. 1.
FREDERICK JELLINEK.
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