Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain was not feeling conciliatory. Publicly in the House of Commons last week Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson charged Italy not only with fomenting the anti-Jewish, anti-British rioting in Palestine, but with spreading anti-British propaganda in India...
Actual loss of life was not great, Arab strategy being to take pot shots from housetops, destroy Jewish property whenever possible, then hustle off to bury their rifles in the ground behind their houses before British patrols could find them. British company commanders issued an order: Every shot from a hidden Arab sniper must be answered with a burst of 50 shots from an automatic rifle...
Near Jaffa the orange grove of Manhattan Banker Felix Warburg was fired by inflamed Arabs. At Geniger others did likewise to a Jewish reforestation scheme known as Balfour Forest...
Mayors of Arab villages were summoned to the High Commissioner's office, asked to call off the general strike which had paralyzed trade in Palestine for 40 days. The mayors bluntly refused unless further Jewish immigration were stopped immediately. A compromise was suggested by soft-spoken Assem Bey Sayed, Mayor of Jaffa; Sir Arthur had promised that a British commission would be appointed to review the whole Jewish-Arab problem. If the commission should be appointed at once and if it should decree the end of Jewish immigration until its deliberations were over, then the Arabs could have...
...Royalists. Last week furious Editor Charles Maurras of the Royalist Action Française was led into a Paris court to answer charges that an editorial of his had incited Frenchmen to attack rich Socialist Leader Leon Blum, who is slated next week to become France's first Jewish Premier. Three months ago Editor Maurras was fined $6.50, sentenced to four months in jail on the grounds that a previous editorial had inspired a Royalist mob to give Leon Blum a cruel beating on a Paris street (TIME, Feb. 24 et seq.}. Last week Editor Maurras...