| Show I I Prevailing Opinions Opinions' I Comment of 01 the tho American Press Press- Press Press- An Old British Custom Great Britain has the sympathy sympathy sym sym- pathy of Its well weIl wishers because it is supposed to be uneasy in Palestine Its problem nt m seems seems tobe to tobe tobe be distracting beyond beyond if if not endurance en- en en en- durance at durance at least the resources of even gifted statesmanship There in Palestine Is a mandate plainly undertaken in the interests Interests interests inter inter- ests of humanity It contains the Arabs whom the British in inspired inspired Inspired in- in by Lawrence of Arabia were to deliver from Turkish oppression oppression op op- op- op and grant the blessings of free nationality The Arabs fell feIl somewhat short of their expectations ex ex- cx- cx as a great many other submerged wards of the allies did Palestine also was to be devoted to the Zionist cause and prepared prep prepared pre pre- pre pre- p pared red to receive Jews who might seek to return to what they re regarded regarded re- re regarded as their fatherland With traditional altruism the British undertook to make the Arabs happy and to give the Jewish people a new homeland It might have foreseen that if the Jewish people migrated in sufficient numbers and bought Arab land there would be a conflict be between between between be- be tween the newcomers and the people who were there Day to day the situation does not Improve and the British are being held responsible for what is happening The Arabs demand that Jewish migration be stopped The British government makes no decision as to that neither saying that it will be nor that it will not be Apparently there Is here another another an- an an an- other instance of the celebrated muddling which has somehow carried the British flag over so large an expanse of the worlds world's surface In the last lut years Tile THe most statesmanship has had the most curious and logical consequences The British British British Brit Brit- ish prime minister or the minister minister min mm ister for foreign affairs for generation generation gen gen- after generation is found at ome some country place taking his ease when he ought to be in his office barking out orders and pounding his desk And as a result result result re re- re- re sult of his never knowing what is going on until it is too late to do anything about it a new v garrison is established some place and a subaltern is seeing that the men make it snappy Some bewildered natives are changing their customs to make them acceptable acceptable acceptable ac ac- ac- ac to nice old ladies back in England who sit by their fire of sea coals knit and pet et the cat The rest of the world looks at the incident and wonders how howin howin howin in the name of Sturm and Drang th the thO doggone thing happened It is observed that Great Britain Britain Brit Brit- ain am has h had bad d to make many concessions con concessions con con- cessions to a restless Egypt requiring re requiring requiring re- re quiring a shift of position for the protection of far eastern inter Inter- ests A shift to Palestine would be the local grand strategy but the mandate does not permit the fortification n of this region as a great air naval and military base But if disorders in Palestine become become become be be- come such that humanity requires re requires requires re- re quires the exercise of full authority authority authority author author- ity backed up by sufficient force the League of Nations may see that Gre Great t Britain must make another sacrifice and plant Itself firmly in another Gibraltar Chicago Tribune Power Grid arid Significance i President Roosevelt's proposal for a power poo pool for the southeastern southeastern southeastern south south- eastern states is a a natural extensIon extension ex ex- tension of what has been een g going ing ingon on in the Tennessee valley No doubt the president envisages an integration of the power facilitIes facilities fa- fa fay of ot the the- country by areas much as the English services were Integrated in a grid system system system tem and as Japan is doing today And of course that Is coming It is just naturally in the picture as power uses expand and rural electrification goes forward It begins to look as though state supervision over power is going the way of ot state supervision supervision supervision super super- vision over railroad rates Not necessarily so There would be benot benot benot not one power pool but several and in each area the state commissions commissions com coin missions would be a factor side by side with the federal government government govern govern- government ment in planning and protecting rates and service Anyway the grid or power pool system is coming to Amer Amer- ica lea It is the way to cheaper rates and more complete It is also the way to survival for the private companies com coin if panics if they will only see it Milwaukee Journal Truth Criminal In n Italy The truth Is a crime under fascism fascism fas las cism as s well as under com corn Henry T. T Gorrell of ot the Rome staff of the United Press has left Italy by Invitation and under escort His offense was the sending out of ot a story ab about ut the arrest of communist tors The agitators were arrested arrest arrest- ed and the story was true nobody nobody no no- body denies that Even Russia permits the news of ot the arrest and punishment of anticommunist anticommunist agitators to be published at home and abroad But not Italy It must not be known that such persons even exist in Italy nor that the government is doing anything about their agitation Moral Moral Moral-don't don't dont believe that anythIng anything any any- thing you hear from Italy is the whole truth The truth under a dictatorship is against the law I San Francisco Chronicle |
