26 MAY 1939, page 16

Such Emotions Are Described By Good Conservatives As...

assuredly it was not by realism alone that we founded and maintained our Empire. I can appre- ciate and even respect the grim solicitude of Mr. MacDonald. I can understand those......

It Was Interesting To Observe The Gradations Of Pleasure Or

of pain occasioned to different people by this White Paper capitulation. At one end of the scale were those whose respect for the party machine enables them to turn right or......

At The Other End Of The Scale Were Those Who

have always regarded our assumption of the Palestine mandate as entail- ing long and dangerous responsibilities, but as representing the one generous gesture which, at the time......

People And Things

By HAROLD NICOLSON O N Monday and Tuesday there took place in the House of Commons a debate upon Command 6,019, known to the Jews as the Black, and to the Gentiles as the White,......

I Can Recall A Conversation With Lord Balfour In Which

he startled me by a fervour of conviction alien to his tempera- ment. It was this conversation which showed me that for him Zionism was no war-time gambit, but a cause, the......

This Ideal, Under The Prophetic Leadership Of Chaim Weiz-...

had almost attained reality. The great work went forward with unfaltering efficiency ; all that faltered was the will-power of His Majesty's Government. That aluminium......

But What Of The Jews? My Mind Goes Back To

those distant days of 1917, when, in a dark basement of the Foreign Office, Mr. Dunlop and I were charged with the task of drafting and redrafting the Balfour Declaration, en-......