Word: antonius
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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...
...writer realizes that, being an Arab, Mr. Antonius may be expected to present that case for the Arab opposition to Jewish settlement in Palestine with a certain amount of justifiable bias. He hopes however, that the enlightened public opinion of the world at large, which shows so much sympathy toward the efforts of the Arab people to organize its life in politically free communities in the enormous areas of Arabia, Egypt, Irak, and Syria, and to progress there economically and culturally, will show an equal sympathy toward the efforts of the Jewish people to attain an analogous development 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