31 JULY 1936, Page 19

A HEARING FOR THE ARABS

[To the Editor Of THE SPECTATOR.] - SIR,—It is with great pleasure that I pass to you a special vote of thanks and appreciation, resolved recently by the Arab Supreme Committee in Palestine, for your sympathetic attitude towards the Arab Case in Palestine.

We are exceedingly pleased to see some of the leading English papers, not influenced by Zionist propaganda, realise the great injustice which is being done in Palestine, and which is undermining the life of the Arabs in this part of the world, and consequently affecting greatly the good relations which existed since ancient times between the Arabs, the Moslem World and the British Empire.

The Committee trust that with your influence and good attention, the policy of His Majesty's Government will be changed in a way to give justice to the just demands of the Arabs in Palestine. Again thanking you for all that you are doing to assist us, I beg to remain, yours faithfully, J. S. GABN,

[The policy of The Spectator has been, and is, to give a fair hearing to both parties in the Palestinian dispute, so far as its correspondence columns are concerned. We can neither defend nor condone the use of violence, whether by Arab or Jew.—En. The Spectator.]