Tense with anxiety, the 209,000,000 people of the Mohammedan world, only 30,000,000 of whom are citizens of states ruled by Mohammedans, followed day by day last week the violent efforts of Palestine's Christian rulers to break Arab resistance to their scheme of carving up the Holy Land into three parts: a Jewish state and an Arab state divided by a British corridor (TIME, July 12 et seq.).
Unable were the Christian authorities recently to prevent the escape from British-mandated Palestine to French-mandated Syria of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, spiritual leader of 800,000 Arabs. Last week they got back at...
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