IMMIGRATION INTO PALESTINE, Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 31 July 1922

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IMMIGRATION INTO PALESTINE

 

Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 31 July, #1922Live, Timeline of British Mandatory Palestine

 

4,399 Jews in Six Months.

 

It is official stated that 474 Jewish immigrants entered Palestine during June, and that the total number who entered during the first six months of the current year was 4, 399 – namely, 2,101 men, 1,271 women and 1,027 children.

 

The Princess Mary Maternity Wards in the Government hospital at Jerusalem have been officially opened. This marks a further step by the Government in the direction of reducing the exceptionally high infantile mortality in Palestine by providing facilities for the training of midwives and for infant care.

 

A new method of estimating and collecting tithes has been adopted by the Government of Palestine on the recommendation of a Commission of Inquiry recently appointed by the High Commissioner, and the results so far obtained have given the highest satisfaction.

 

The main feature of the new method is that the farmer is now associated directly with the Government in determining the value of the tithes, two of the four estimators in each circle being appointed by representatives of the villages concerned. Besides, committees are being constituted in each district to watch over the interests of the tithe-paying population.

 

These committees include representatives of local agricultural organisations and prominent agriculturalists nominated by the Governor, and will act in a general advisory capacity to the Governor on all tithe questions.”

 

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ZIONISTS AND PALESTINE MANDATE

 

Yorkshire Post, 31 July 1922

 

“A composite resolution, expressing thanks and congratulations to all concerned in the granting of the Mandate for Palestine to this country, has been passed at the annual conference of the English Zionist Federation. The resolution thanked the Council of the League of Nations for approving the Mandate, tendered an expression of gratitude to Lord Balfour for his vindication of the cause of Israel; and congratulated Sir Herbert Samuel on the ratification of the Mandate by the League of Nations. An expression of goodwill was expressed to the kindred Arab people.”

 

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Scholar and Author

 

Aberdeen Press and Journal, 31 July 1922

 

“He (Dr Mackie) wrote a book on “Manners and Customs in the Holy Land,” which was published by the Guild Committee of the Church of Scotland.”

 

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MANDATES DIFFICULT. French and Italian Governments at Issue Over Syria

 

Daily News (London), 31 July 1922

 

“The negotiations between the French and Italian Governments, which are delaying the actual entry into operation of the Syrian, and consequently also of the Palestine mandate, are still in progress at Paris.

 

Unfortunately the two Governments still seem to be to some extent at issue over what is essentially a simple problem. According to the “Temps,” which reproaches the Italians with having raised difficulties at the last moment, Signor Schanzer is asking distinctly more in Syria than he did in Palestine.

 

It is suggested, for example, that having secured a promise that in Palestine when an Italian is being tried the majority of the court shall be European, the Rome Government demands in the case of Syria an entirely European tribunal; it claims that Italian immigration shall be not merely permitted, but encouraged, in Syria; and it asks for unrestricted liberties for Italian schools in Syria.

 

To this the Rome “Tribuna” replies that, so far from Italy having raised eleventh-hour objections, it was France which suddenly decided that the Syrian mandate must be granted forthwith; and that with regard to the specific demands regarding Syria they do not go beyond what was conceded in the case of Palestine.”

 

In that unsatisfactory position the matters still rests. The “Tribuna’s” dementi of the “Temps’” allegations deserves publicity. At the same time, there appears to be no sufficient reason why Italy should not rest content with a mandate which, by its very nature, ensures equality of treatment for everyone. In any case, there is an Italian representative on the League Council to draw attention to any unfairness in the working of the mandate.

 

H.W.H.

 

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NEW PALESTINE BODY URGED. American Jewish Congress Proposes World Movement,

 

The New York Herald, 31 July, 1922

 

“An appeal for a world Jewish Congress, whose chief object should be the upbuilding of Palestine, was made yesterday by the American Jewish Congress, 1 Madison avenue, of which Nathan Straus is president. Dr. Stephen S. Wise is chairman of the executive committee of the organization.

 

The American Jewish Congress desires that all Jews may participate in the building up of Palestine as a Jewish homeland in accordance with the terms of the Palestine mandate. It appeals to the World Zionist Organization, which is to meet in annual conference at Carlsbad next month, to take the initiative in convening a world congress so as to make this possible.”

 

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EVENTS TO-DAY.

 

The New York Herald, 31 July, 1922

 

“Zionist Organization of America, celebration of the ratification of the Palestine mandate by the League of Nations, Town Hall, West Forty-third street, 8 P. M.”

 

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ARABS DISLIKE POLICY BRITAIN IN PALESTINE

 

Tonopah Daily Bonanza (Nev.), 31 July 1922

 

London. July 14. (Associated Press by Mail) The government is unremitting in its efforts to find a solution of the Palestine problem. To this end it has, among other things recently published the critical correspondence that has passed between the government the Palestine Arab delegation now in London, the Zionist organization since last February.

 

Included is an official statement of British policy as given out July 1, to the effect that Jewish national home will be founded in Palestine and Jewish people will be in Palestine as of right and not sufferance. The disappearance or subordination of the Arab population language or culture is not contemplated, and the establishment of a full measure of self-government in Palestine will be fostered. The special position of the Zionist executive does not entitle it to a share in the government of the country.

 

The Arab delegation has replied this statement of policy as follows:

 

“Since its establishment in Palestine the Zionist commission has very much interfered with the administration of Palestine under one pretext or another, all of which were based on solicitude for Jewish interests.

 

“One military administrator after another, and one British official after another, had to go because they could not and would not govern the country on lines laid down by the Zionist commission.

 

We see division and tension between Arab and Zionist increasing day by day and resulting in general retrogression because the immigrants dumped upon the country from different parts of the world are ignorant of the language, customs and character of the Arabs, and enter Palestine by the might of England and against the will of the people who are convinced that these people have come to strangle them. Nature does not allow the creation of a spirit of co-operation between two peoples so different.

 

The fact is that his majesty’s government has placed itself in the position of a partisan in Palestine of a certain policy which the Arab cannot accept because sooner or later it means his extinction.”

 

Commenting on this official correspondence, a diplomatic correspondent writes in the Sunday Times:

 

“Briefly put the British government finds itself uncomfortably sandwiched in between two sets of promises. Driven by the exigencies of the great war to demand on behalf of the Allies the co-operation of the Arabs against the Turks. Britain agreed to recognize their independence within a territory which included Palestine and Syria. That was on October 24, 1915.

On November 2, 1917, possibly with a view to obtaining other and equally necessary support, the Earl of Balfour made his famous declaration in favor of the establishment of a Jewish home in Palestine.”

 

The passage of the house of lords the latter part of June of the Islington motion, disapproving the Balfour declaration, was immensely popular in Palestine, where this incident is regarded as a notable Arab victory.”

 

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In Strange Lands

 

The Pensacola Journal, 31 July, 1922

 

JERUSALEM. (A. P. Letter). - The endeavor of Great Britain to secure confirmation of the Palestine mandate by the League of Nations is bringing out pointed comment in the Arabic press.

 

Emboldened by the stand taken by the Vatican in its opposition to the mandate on the ground that it does not provide sufficient guarantees to the Christian minorities, the native papers are devoting many columns of strongly worded articles to the subject.

 

The Beit Ul Makdes, a Jerusalem newspaper threatens the government and the Zionist organization with an Arab revolt in Palestine if the British mandate is approved by the League of Nations in its present form.

 

El Sabah, another daily, declares: “England asked the League of Nations to confirm the mandate at once thereby believing that the national spirit in us would be crushed, and telling us nothing could be altered since it was a ‘fait accompli.’ Let England beware, the revolution now going on in Syria will not take long to spread and penetrate also in Palestine.”

 

Nationalist fires already are raging in the breast of every Palestinian, according to well informed observers here who are of the opinion also that it would take only a little spark to start a general conflagration.”

 

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Syria’s Revolt, Former American Commissioner Tells First Story

 

The Hickory Daily Record, 31 July, 1922

 

Charles R. Crane in August Our World.

 

At Versailles the allies were concerned to give force to their secret treaties. Their “honor” was bound up in them. Their “honor” was not tied up in the open declarations made to the peoples of the world.

 

Beyond these public and widespread declarations there were the clear understandings between the allies and the Arabs, and especially the Syrian Arabs who took part in the war against their co-religionists, the Turks, that after the war Syria would be free, unified and independent.

 

In the belief that this opportunity had finally come, elections were held in the spring of 1919 all over Syria and Palestine for a Congress to meet in Damascus to put in effect the promises that had been made. An excellent body of men were elected, both Moslems and Christians, and the Congress met to found the new government, Feisal, who had led the victorious Arab army which had co-operated with the allies, was elected king.

 

These people are certainly much better equipped for self-government than the Bulgars, Serbs or Greeks were when they got their independence. And then, one must not forget the country – Syria and Palestine – that is being considered. This is not like any other country in the world. What happens there matters. This is the most sensitive political nerve center. If things go wrong there, the whole world is soon irritated.

 

That is the situation this minute. Four years ago the East, and especially the Moslem part of it, was in a most reasonable spirit, really longed to be reconsidered to the Western world, and had been touched by and profoundly believed in the principles of the fourteen points as a basis for this reconciliation.

But on account of the complete failure of the Allies to live up to the promises made or to take into account in the slightest degree the wishes of these people, and their suppression in the most brutal manner of any manifestation for freedom or independence, a deep wave of bitter anti-Western feeling has spread all over the East.

 

The East asks why should these Europeans who have made such a mess of running their own affairs insist on coming here to run ours and why should France, who cannot begin to take care of her own affairs at home, insist on taking on the great additional burden of running a country when the people and all the neighbors of that country are determined that she cannot be allowed to stay?

 

The street demonstrations which took place just before Easter in Damascus was to convince me as a former American commissioner of the profound discontent with the French occupation for they said: “We are absolutely strangled. No expression of any kind unfavorable to the French is tolerated. We cannot get any word out, so you must carry it!”

 

And this is what I am trying to do. It is a poor time in the present state of the world, when race feeling is so acute, to try to force a political control over reluctant, bitter and strong people who have co-religionists extending over thousands of miles, who are sharply studying their welfare.”

 

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Canadian Girl is Nurse to Half Million Patients

 

The Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram (Richmond, Ind.), 31 July, 1922,

 

“CONSTANTINOPLE..Miss Emma Wood of Sarnia, Ont. has been filling for the past two years. Miss Wood does not personally administer to the needs of all these patients, but they are none the less her patients. She is the director of nursing for the Near East Relief. She superintends the work of 50 American and Canadian nurses and about 1,000 native nurses’ aides. The half-million patients represent the number of war and famine sufferers in Turkey, Palestine and Armenia, who have received medical attention from the American and Canadian relief funds during the past year.”

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