Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inhabitants are 93% Moslem, and it is regarded as the cradle of fanatical Shiahism. A wide majority of the illiterate population are Shiites but even the literate Government clique-including youthful King Ghazi, who belongs to the opposed Sunnite sect-sympathize with the Arabs of Palestine. Anti-Jewish propaganda is, in the circumstances, anti-British propaganda. Last spring both Sunnites and Shiites relished a poster depicting John Bull holding a pair of scales in which an Arab, an Indian and a Negro in one tray were outweighed by a fat, long-nosed...
...refugees set up their new permanent bureau. Earl Winterton, lofty Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, was elected chairman.* His first job was to hear complaints from Britain's own dominions. The Northern Rhodesian Legislative Council, spokesmaned by Sir Leopold Moore, angrily protested a rumor that 500 German Jewish families would be sent to settle in Rhodesia. "Why," exploded Sir Leopold, "can we not have instead 500 British colonists who are not Jews...
Speaking for the U. S., Delegate Myron C. Taylor estimated that in the case of Germany alone some 650,000 persons (Jews, part-Jews classed as non-Aryans, and persecuted Catholics) face ejection, not to mention possible Jewish emigrations from Poland, Hungary, etc. At the present rate of refugee departures from Germany, declared Mr. Taylor, it would take 16 years for all the refugees to leave. He therefore urged the London secretariat to set itself the goal of so speeding departures from Germany that the exodus will be complete within five years...
After a three-month study of Britain's year-old proposal for slicing the Holy Land into British-mandated, Arabic and Jewish States, members of His Majesty's Government's technical commission last week sailed from Haifa for London. Their pilgrimage to the Holy Land had been marked by an intense wave of Arab-Jewish terrorism. As the members departed, Britain's Colonial Secretary, youthful Malcolm MacDonald, arrived by air, spent two days secretly inspecting the security measures Britain has been forced to take...
...original partition scheme. In fact, the New York Times's Near Eastern correspondent, Joseph M. Levy, went on record with the statement that the turbulent conditions in Palestine had convinced the British that two far-reaching changes must be made in the partition plan: 1) The proposed Jewish State must be reduced from 2,500 square miles to some 400, confined to the Sharon Valley, whose population is about 95% Jewish. 2) The Arab State idea must be abandoned. "Highest British authorities here believe that the Arabs are not yet fit for self-government and that therefore all Palestine...