Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week the showdown came. Unable to bring all the Arab and Jewish delegates together during three weeks of the abortive Round-Table Conference, the British Government, rather than allow the deadlock to continue, threw its cards on the table. In an "unofficial recommendation" submitted by Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald to the Arab and Jewish delegations, the British Government proposed that they end their League of Nations mandate over Palestine and set up the Holy Land as an independent state, tied by treaty relations to Britain...
...British suggestion said nothing about the ultimate internal government of independent Palestine, but Secretary MacDonald was understood to have informed the Arab delegates at a private session at his country home that Britain contemplated the establishment of a mixed, Arab-Jewish government, in which the two races would be represented according to population. Unless an unthinkably heavy influx of Jews was allowed in the next few years, this would mean that the Arabs would outnumber the Jews...
Reaction from both Arabs and Jews was immediate. Jewish delegates refused to attend an official luncheon given in their honor by the British Government. Said one Jew: "It would be like going to a Last Supper, with the British Government as Judas." Day after the British suggestions had been made known, the Jewish delegation officially rejected them as a basis for further negotiations, but suggested they would continue their peace negotiations with the British and Arabs on some other basis. U. S. Ambassador to Britain Joseph P. Kennedy told British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax that the British plan would have...
...plan of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees for the orderly and systematic evacuation of Jews from Germany. Success of the plan depended on Adolf Hitler's two-weeks-old promise to observe a temporary truce in his anti-Semitic campaign while the $300,000,000 corporation to finance Jewish emigration was being set up. Last week Dictator Hitler bluntly broke his promise, permitted Berlin police to experiment with a new method for running Jews out of Germany and grabbing their property...
...Germany, are parties. This is not a necessary or feasible solution. Instead, let the British continue the Mandate, improve their administration, grant government aid to Arab education and health services and strengthen the hand of Arab moderates. Thus they may create a friendly atmosphere in which an expanding Jewish National Home can exist fruitfully and peacefully with a modern intelligent Arab people. Irving M. London...