In a cozy, book-filled house at Passfield Corner, Liphook, Hampshire live Sidney and Beatrice Webb, foremost economists of the British Labor Party. Their telephone number is "Passfield 6," telegraphic address "Passfield," and he is the First Baron Passfield of Passfield Corner. Last week the wrath of millions of Jews was loosed upon this spindly-shanked bee-bellied, goat-bearded little scholar. Reason: potent Lord Passfield in his official capacity as Secretary of State for the Colonies had, just restated the Palestinian policy of His Majesty's Government in these terms:
1) Jewish immigration to Palestine, which the...