Word: arab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Make it an Arab nation with a Jewish minority...
...Divide the country into Jewish, Arab districts...
After leading the whirlwind Arab camelry to victory over the Turks in the World War, the late Lieut. Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence refused decorations and money, reputedly as a protest against Britain's weaseling on territorial promises made to buy the Arabs for the Allies. This tragic-hero role lost some of its poignancy last week with the publication of a chapter previously omitted, on the advice of George Bernard Shaw, from Lawrence's confessional, Seven Pillars of Wisdom. This chapter reveals that the Colonel knew all along that the Arabs would be double-crossed...
Last week as Colonel Lawrence had hoped, the British Government did bow to expediency, belatedly fulfilled part of her Wartime pledges to the Arabs. The Government's new Palestine plan acknowledges the claims of Arab Nationalism by limiting Jewish immigration and planning the establishment in ten years of an independent Arab-controlled Palestine...
During the War Britain was also anxious to win the loyalty, brains and financial support of her Jewry, and part of the price she paid was the promise of a Jewish national home in Palestine, then as now preponderantly populated by Arabs.* But as of last week it was more expedient to welsh on the Jews, who are on the run in many parts of the world, than to welsh on the Arabs. Arab friendship in a Mediterranean war of the sort Signor Mussolini has been bellowing about would be of great value to Britain. Nevertheless, there were still plenty...