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Such impudent talk from youngsters to the Grand Mufti revealed a still deeper cause of last week's revolt: the crackup of the Arab social hierarchy in Palestine. Jewish development of Palestine has weakened the downtrodden Arab farm workers to the feudal tyranny of their Arab masters, has raised wage and living standards in Palestine, introduced the eight-hour day, encouraged Arab trade-unions. Result: economic liberation of Arab farmers. At bottom the anti-Jewish rage of the Arab landowners, backed by their Bedouin cavalry hordes, was caused by this unexpected social upheaval. But the leaders are willing...
...masses of his countrymen his purposes and his character were an open book. They loved him well because they understood him well-his passion for justice, his championship of the cause of the exploited and the downtrodden, his ardent and flaming patriotism...
...could not help thinking of the past, when more than once in our history we had rightly given all our sympathies to some threatened or downtrodden race, but because we had been unable to implement the effect of those sympathies, all we had done was to encourage them, with the result that in the end their fate was worse than it would have been without our sympathy...
This week the bill presented at the Paramount and Fenway to all and sundry bears a definite stamp of of mediocrity. The chief picture, "Shipmates Forever,"concerns itself with the life of a downtrodden midshipman, personified by Dick Powell. As an ex-crooner goaded into enter the Academy by a navy father (chief of the fleet, no less) and family traditions, he suffers a severe lacing from the less musically-minded upperclassmen. Despite much bitterness of heart and loneliness, offset only by the presence of Ruby Keeler, he finally comes out topside and, as might be expected, is ready...
...complete recognition of the independent status of Manchuria. Furthermore, even if this analysis is not acceptable, Mr. Rea contends that the military despotism of the War Lords at Nanking furnished a satisfactory justification for a revolutionary separation from the fatherland. In short, Manchuria was exercising the rights of any downtrodden nation in seeking the aid of Japan to defeat the forces of Chiang-Kai-shek...