PALESTINE: Divide & Rule?

Great Britain stalled for time again last week in deciding what to do about the irresistible force of Zionism that has met the immovable object of Arab nationalism in the blood-stained hills of the Holy Land. Last year a Royal Commission under the late Lord Peel, having duly visited Palestine, taken copious notes, heard both sides' pleas, recommended that the country be partitioned into a Jewish State, an Arab State and a British Corridor. So great was the Arab terrorism that followed the announcement of this plan that last April the British...

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