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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apropos of "Grass Roots Press" (TIME, Feb. 20), it is heartening to realize that our Bill of Rights makes possible the stabilizing influence in a great democracy of some 10.000 weekly newspapers. A lot of mighty levelheaded editing comes from the lads whose feet are still on the land...
...Near and Middle East. Reason: to safeguard for Britain her empire lifeline to India and the East. So if a showdown over Palestine had to come, it has long been a good bet that Britain's empire-conscious diplomats would decide the problem of the Holy Land in favor of the Arabs...
...editorial "Land of Milk and Honey" in the Crimson of March 1 contains many statements to which a careful student of the Palestine problem must take exception. The conclusion that the British plan for an independent Arab-controlled Palestine is the only feasible solution of the problem is derived from untenable assumptions and misstatements of fact...
...give the Arabs control of this territory. The Hebrew claim to Palestine is based not only on residence in Biblical times but on the fact that there has always been a Jewish settlement in Palestine since then. Furthermore, Jewish colonization has not and would not deprive Arabs of their land or oust them from the country. With the advent of the Zionists, the Arab standard of living has risen, and the Arab population has almost doubled due to immigration from other Arab countries and to a declining death rate as a result of Jewish medical services...
...races throughout Palestine makes the creation of two separate kingdoms impossible, the British plan seems the only feasible one. The English are perfectly justified in forcing their solution despite the vehement Hebrew protests. Yet England has a moral obligation to protect those Jews already living in the Holy Land. Not only has the new scheme recognized this intention, but His Majesty's government has gone even further, in giving both races proportional representation in the government of the new state. Although bloody riots will undoubtedly break out between the two races for years to come, this plan may well...