"Intolerable!"

His [Britannic] Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a National Home for the Jewish People.

--Balfour Declaration.

Nov. 2, 1917.

There are seven Arabs in Palestine to every Jew, and they do not view with favor the British Mandate over Palestine which is making a national home for the Jewish people. Therefore the Arab majority has obstructed the supply of needed public funds; and today the budgetary deficit of Palestine stands at -L-1,000,000 ($4,870,000).

Recently this state of affairs was stigmatized as "intolerable!" by peppery Baron Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer of Messines and of Bilton, who has been British High Commissioner to Palestine since 1925. He prescribed a remedy: more British troops. He had tested his prescriptions in 1918-19, when, with the rank of Field Marshal, he commanded the Second British Army occupying the German Rhineland. Methods which reduced Germans to submission ought to be good for Arabs.

Last week Lord Plumer's prescription went unheeded, and his resignation was accepted by the King-Emperor, who appointed to succeed him another old soldier, but less peppery, Lt.-Col. Sir John Robert Chancellor, 58, Scotch, a veteran of the Indian and World Wars, and, since 1923, Governor of Southern Rhodesia, Africa.

Since Palestine is held by Great Britain as a Mandate from the League of Nations, it was to that body that the Palestine Arab Congress addressed, last week, the following appeal:

"It is the duty of the League of Nations, after ten years of absolute colonial rule, to grant to Palestine a democratic parliamentary government in accordance with the League's pledges and the pledges of the allies to the Arabs.

"The people of Palestine cannot and will not tolerate the present absolute colonial system, and urgently insist upon and demand an alteration."

Christians and Jews were shocked at this evidence of infidel determination to make of Palestine a home for Arabs.