Blyth has repeated after an (unnamed) "Arab Nationalist friend "
a story, in which the Arabs act with a magnificent " spirit of chivalry towards an opponent," an (unnamed) British officer behaves with a callous disregard of the human' feelings and human dignity of some Jews, and these Jews meekly act on an invitation or order from the officer which, after the events enumerated by me, would have amounted to an insult. Having expressed doubts whether any British officer and any Palestinian Jews could have behaved in this manner, I wrote : , " If this account is true, let it be nailed down as such ;' if. it' is untrue, let it be exposed as a piece of Arab and pro-Arab propaganda . . I ask Miss Blyth and her 'Arab Nationalist friend' to agree with me on a British, non-Jewish resident in Palestine, who would enquire into the truth of the story . . ."
Miss Blyth, for a reason unnamed, prefers to take no notice of my challenge and offer, but continues to harp on her uncorroborated story as if it were a well-authenticated The Athenaeum, LondOn, •
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