Word: antonius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...account of a speech on Palestine by Mr. Antonius, an Arab student from the Near East, has been published in The Harvard CRIMSON of March 22. The speaker is reported to have attacked Zionism as well as the British administration of Palestine, allegedly "under the thumb of Zionists...
...Antonius registers particularly three grievances. One concerns the denial of self-government institutions. As a matter of fact, country-wide elections for a Legislative Council were held by the administration as early as 1923, but the Arab population abstained from voting, demanding an open repudiation by Great Britain of its obligations concerning the Jewish national home. That far even the British administration, despite its anti-Zionist attitude, was not prepared...
Pointing out that Great Britain had apparently abandoned principles that they had adhered to in all their other foreign possessions, Mr. Antonius went on to say that the native Arabs of the region were being severely upset by the Jewish action in Palestine...
...Antonius went on to say that French and British interests in their Mandates in Syria lay in the air line routes to the East, naval bases in the eastern Mediterranean, pipe lines for oil and similar economic and military factors...
...Antonius gave a summary of the history of the Arabian people to show how so many different racial types should have the same culture. He then told of the growth of the Nationalist movement which began as a revival of the early literature and culture and later took on an increased political complexion