Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · 23 July 1937

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Syria Protests Plan to Slice Palestine

Alongside: "Palestine Split Unnecessary, Rabbi Says" and "Jewry in Chicago Protest Partition"

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“Syria Protests Plan to Slice Palestine. LONDON, July 23.—While a parliamentary move was launched here to transfer the British mandate over Palestine to the United States, Great Britain’s plan to partition the Holy Land last night headed for stormy opposition before the League of Nations.

The first outside protest to the scheme to carve Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states as a means of settling age-old differences of race and religion came from Syria, herself under mandate to France.

Disapproval Expressed. The Syrian government at Damascus expressed the ‘unanimous disapproval of the Syrian public of Palestine to the dismemberment scheme’ in a note addressed to the French High Commissioner for dispatch to Geneva. This note will unquestionably be taken into consideration at the forthcoming League session.

The move to bring the United States into the troubled affairs of the Holy Land was made by Geoffrey Mander, liberal member of Parliament. He proposed that London turn over its authority and responsibility to Washington ‘in view of the British government’s unwillingness to continue to administer its mandate.’

Proposal Up Tuesday. Mander, in a written statement, announced he would put his proposal up to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in the House of Commons Tuesday as one way of extricating the government from the dilemma created by the presentation of its Palestine plan to commons for ratification last night.

The House refused to vote on the measure and the government submitted to an amendment which will throw the issue into the lap of the League of Nations.

Palestine Split Unnecessary, Rabbi Says. Saying he agrees that partition is not a necessary precedent to the future of Palestine, Dr.

Herman Hailperin, rabbi of the Tree of Life Congregation, has added his comment to the article in last Sunday’s Sun-Telegraph by David Lloyd George, scoring the British Royal Commission report recommending division of the Holy Land into separate states for Jews, Arabs and British.

‘I Agree.’ Rabbi Hailperin said: ‘It is simple, though inadequate, to say “I agree” or “I disagree” with the statement by David Lloyd George concerning the Palestine report. A long time ago I learned neither to speak nor to write about matters that others have dealt with in a more masterly fashion.’

Dr. Magnes Right. ‘It seems correct to say that the commentary of Dr. Judah L. Magnes, the president of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, dated Paris, July 12, is the most accurate and thoroughgoing critique of the Royal Commission’s finding yet to appear.

I heartily agree with him in the thought that partition is not a necessary precedent to the future of Palestine.’

Jewry in Chicago Protest Partition. CHICAGO, July 23. (INS)—A giant mass meeting to protest the proposed partition of Palestine by Great Britain will be held here Wednesday. Rabbi Abraham E. Abramovitz, of the National Zionist Organization; Maj. Gen. Frank Parker, World War hero…”

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Three items on partition side by side in 1937: Syria’s protest, a Pittsburgh rabbi agreeing that partition is unnecessary, and a mass meeting in Chicago against it. Between them run a society photograph and a story about a banned flight to Moscow.

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