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Last week Harry St. John B. Philby, Briton-turned-Moslem, familiar intriguer in the Arab world and intimate of Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud, arrived in India "to buy tents." He went into a huddle with Moslem Leaguers and Hyderabad officials. Delhi was sure Jinnah was angling for the support of Moslem states in the Middle East...
...joint Jewish-Arab state or partition of the country into two states, one Arab, one Jewish...
...Arabs staked everything on independence for Palestine right now, while Arabs still outnumber Jews there, 1,000,000 to 600,000. Jews would then become a permanent minority, living on sufferance. The Zionists, to counter this strategy, had to bring into the open a fact long hidden by their anti-British propaganda. They do not want the immediate independence of Palestine. Instead, they want increased Jewish immigration into Palestine, under foreign protection against the Arab majority; after they have attained a majority, they will want independence...
Fighting Invited? When the Arabs saw themselves losing the debate, they lost their tempers. Cried Iraq's Fadhil Jamali: "Supporting the aspirations of the Jews [in Palestine] means very clearly a declaration of war. . . . This is an invitation to fighting." Even Arabs saw they had gone too far when Emil Ghory, a Christian Arab on the Palestine Arab Higher Committee, defended his pro-Nazi boss, the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, with an un-Christian outburst: "The Jews are questioning the record of an Arab spiritual leader. Does that come properly from the mouth of a people who have crucified...
Flirtation Abandoned? Russia abandoned (for the time being) her flirtation with the Arab states, smothered the last Arab hope for an immediate victory. "It would be unjust," said Andrei Gromyko, "not to take [Zionist aspirations] into account." Then he proposed partition of Palestine (which Arabs have unanimously opposed) as one possible solution of the Palestine problem. Russia, in effect, jumped up on the fence with Britain and the U.S. On Palestine, where big-power rivalry (always in the background) had not yet been clearly defined, the U.N. at last was able to take almost unanimous action. The General Assembly voted...