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...crisis in a nutshell, the Arabs on strike demand the cessation of Jewish immigration to Palestine and have put British High Commissioner General Sir Arthur Grenfell null sufficiently on the spot to make him welcome mediation between Britons and Arabs by the Foreign Minister of Iraq, Nuri Pasha as Said. This Moslem statesman sent up a trial balloon to test Christian public opinion by letting it be known in Jerusalem that he thought the British were on the point of closing the immigration gates of Palestine with a new policy of "No More Jews," temporarily at least. No sooner...
...signing of a new Treaty of Alliance between Britain and Egypt (see cut). Some five months of expert drafting produced this pact and to get Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha in a frame of mind to sign it has been the triumph of British High Commissioner for Egypt Sir Miles Lampson. Many London papers called him "The Prince of Pacificators"-this accolade reputedly having been bestowed by Sir Austen Chamberlain, Knight of the Garter, who received his knighthood for having been one of the co-makers of the Treaty of Locarno...
Finally the Treaty provides that some Egyptian troops and Egyptian colonists may enter the Sudan. In 1924 eight Egyptians assassinated the British Sirdar General Sir Lee Stack and in punishment Britain excluded Egyptian soldiers from the Sudan, closed it to Egyptian farmers who wished to move in, and exacted from the Egyptian Government cash damages of $2,500,000 (TIME...
Acting Head of the extremely active British Government last week was the Home Secretary, Sir John Allsebrook Simon, whose functions are normally the sinecure of preserving order in the well-behaved British Isles and advising His Majesty in cases where the royal prerogative of pardon should be exercised...
...last week transferred his League of Nations representative, resourceful Marcel Rosenberg, to Madrid. There Comrade Rosenberg found himself not only Soviet Ambassador but the sole Ambassador of any kind in the Spanish capital. All the others, including cigar-chewing U. S. Ambassador Claude Bowers and sherry-sipping British Ambassador Sir Henry Getty Chilton, considered it too dangerous to be in Spain at all. They were living at Hendaye, France, trying to agree on a diplomatic formula to be submitted to Spanish leaders of both sides urging them to "humanize the civil war and mitigate the sufferings." In this they were...