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...King Edward VIII and his advisers not decided to send an overwhelming expeditionary force to Palestine and bestowed the most extraordinary dictatorial powers of life & death upon Lieut. General John Greer Dill, when they ordered him to put an end to the Arab general strike (TIME, Oct. 5), the Arabs by now would quite possibly have slit most of the Jewish throats in that country...
While British newsorgans of Leftist and Liberal persuasion were crying out against "the outrageous powers over life and death" entrusted by His Majesty's Government to masterful Lieutenant General John Greer Dill, Military Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in Palestine, the General himself was demonstrating how effective those powers could be. Last week under the watchful eyes of British Tommies, Arab shops which had been closed for 26 weeks during the paralyzing Arab General Strike (TIME, May 4 et seq.) displayed their wares, and Arab women thankfully began to shop again in comfort. Arab-operated...
Candid General Dill, who well knows that the Arabs still hate the Jews as much as ever, was not deceived into thinking that the suspension of the strike marked the end of Arab-Jewish hostilities. Not Arab benevolence but British might, General Dill admitted, had ended the strike. Declared General Dill: "The decision of the Arab higher committee was almost entirely due to the resolute and energetic action of the British forces...
Once the royal signature "Edward R. I." had been affixed, it became possible for grim-jawed Lieut. General John Greer Dill, commanding the new British Expeditionary Force in Palestine (TIME, Oct. 5), to: 1) impose censorship of the press and all communications; 2) issue regulations which, so long as they are in the form "for the public safety," may be of any kind General Dill thinks best and unchallengeable in any court of law; 3) order the arrest, detention or exclusion from Palestine of anyone; 4) order private property forfeited to the Crown or destroyed as a punitive measure. Arab...
...General Dill soon found there was more in his job than fighting Arabs when he was called upon to quiet Dr. Khalil Totas, Principal of the Friends' Mission School, "only American Educational Institution in Palestine." Dr. Totas, having received British military instructions to evacuate the school so that it could be used as a barracks, complained bitterly to U. S. Consul General George Wadsworth at Jerusalem. Said General Dill, promptly putting the matter straight: "There has been a mistake.We only want the school playground to pitch our tents...