PALESTINE: Into Three Parts?

At a single sitting one morning last week the new British Cabinet of beak-nosed, decisive Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resolved that the way to end 17 years of bickering and battle between Jews and Arabs in Palestine is to carve them up into separate countries. Protestant and Catholic Irish were thus carved asunder in 1921, and although objectors to this drastic British measure did not stop at murder, strife has subsided between Protestant Northern Ireland and the Catholic Irish Free State (see col. 2). The Cabinet last week sent Minister of...

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