Word: arab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking its own good time, the League of Nations Mandates Commission published its report last week on the Arab-Jew riots in Palestine year ago. The report roundly flayed the British Government for inaction...
Charges: 1) The riots should have been foreseen but were not. 2) Arab outbreaks were precipitated by frustrated Arab political aspirations, for which the British were responsible. 3) British troops and police were insufficient to maintain order in Palestine. 4) Arab interests in the face of Jewish colonization were not safeguarded...
Quite as promptly came pat answers to the charges from British Foreign Secretary "Uncle Arthur" Henderson: 1) Although fully informed of conditions in Palestine through annual reports, the League's Mandates Commission itself did not foresee the Wailing Wall riots. 2) The Arab outbreak was not incited by resentment against the British for failure to fulfill their aspirations, for there was not one attack upon any representative of British authority. 3) When the outbreak came the British Were attempting to arbitrate the Wailing Wall question, a policy still regarded by Britain as the only possible method of settling...
Last year the Arabs made the Wall a prime factor in their war upon Zionism. As Jews went to their weeping places, rowdy Arab boys molested them. Riots ensued which spread throughout Palestine. About 100 Jews were killed, a few Arabs (TIME...
...pens scratched. In the name of His Majesty King George V, in the name of His Majesty King Feisal I of Iraq a treaty was signed and sealed with red wax splotches. By its terms the British mandate over Iraq will automatically expire when this little Arab State is accorded its scheduled admission into the League of Nations...