A POLICY IN PALESTINE?
Sin,—Every day the world Press is publishing details of schemes for the solution of the Palestine problem. These schemes, including the partition scheme evolved as the result of studies by the Anglo-American Govern- ment,Commission, are received with a varying measure of praise or blame by people who are in no way affected by them. By the Arabs and the Jews themselves all of these schemes havebeen met with an uncom- promising hostility. The Jews have sufficient voices to argue their case. , To those of tit who live in an Arab State whose basic feeling is one of
• friendship towards Great Britain, it is remarkable to see the solid deter- mination that, come what may, they will resist any further attempt to foist a permanent Jewish political influence upon 'the Middle East.
It is high time that the British Government realised that if, at the urging of the United States, it intends to impose a solution in Palestine which the peoples affected have not worked out for themselves, it is going to be faced with a prolonged guerrilla war of terrorism. Such a policy must alienate one side or the other—and possibly both. But it becomes daily more necessary that the Government should make up its mind , which side it can best afford to alienate, and should then go straight ahead with its intentions. A prolonged period of hesitancy and vacillation is the equivalent of the war of nerves which preceded all the German machinations before the world war. In such an atmosphere tempers rise and nerves are strained, and the situation which has to be faced becomes daily more impossible.—! am, Sir, yours, &c.,
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