| Show PlAN IS HELD VISIONARY Palestine Too Poor to Sustain Sustain Sus Sus- tam tain n Many Jews Is Belief Belief Belief Be Be- lief of Dr Prichett NEW V YORK Nov ov 29 AP AP The The Zionist movement to colonize Palestine Palestine Pales Pales- tine with Jews Is Js visionary and sure to fall fail in the belief of Dr Hem Henry S s. s Prichett trustee of ot the Carnegie endowment for International peace A review he has made of the situation situation situation situ situ- in the Holy Land was pUblIshed published pub pUb- today and will appear in the official organ of the endowment nl later It is impossible writes Dr Dry Dr Prichett to to settle a million people in Palestine without Palestine without to a great extent extent ex ex- tent displacing the existing Arab population It seems unfortunate to add one more quarrel to those which already embitter the eastern end of the Mediterranean l Palestine is a part of of ofa a region where racial religious and political hatreds exist to an extent scarcely equaled in any other part of the world Dr Prichett who undertook a survey of Egypt Palestine and Greece for the Carnegie endowment endowment endowment endow endow- ment believes Palestine is too poor ever to sustain a considerable JewIsh Jewish Jew Jew- ish population as contemplated in making it a national home for the Jews and he sees In n n the clash between between be be- tween Jewish and Arab aspirations a prolific source of r International nal dissension The Palestine Ara Arabs s. s he points out fought for the allies during the great great war and now d de demand demand de- de mand as do those of ot Egypt the same p political freedom as the Turk who fought against the allies STRONG BACKING The Zionist movement is backed by a strong organization organisation in this country country country- and in England and it is favored by the British government which has the mandate for Pales Pales- tine Despite all all- that says Dr Prichett the inherent poverty of the countr country its lack of resources the absence of an industrial life operate to make futile the success of such a movement Dr Prichett declares that even if Palestine could be populated by Jews and become a pure Ture Jewish state it if would be a an unfortunate situation for those Jews who lived in Palestine as segregation of any group has seldom failed to develop a type of personality and national character that was not aggressive egotistic and arid without capacity for operation co-operation with the rest of the world Discussing Egy Egypt t. t Dr Prichett sa sa- the basis of unrest there is not religious but is due to political and economic causes and to the rising tide Ude of nationalism which was given iven fresh impetus by President Wilsons Wilson's championship of self The Mohammedan world he says also is facing a a. struggle between modernism and fundamentalism just as pronounced as in the he Christian Christian Christian Chris Chris- tian world New New- NewYork York Zionists disagree with Dr Prichett's published conclusions Rabbi Stephen S. S Wise Vise declared no intelligent Arab would discuss the Jewish settlement of Palestine in such unfriendly even belligerent terms |
