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ZIONISM AND PALESTINE 109 the Palestine arena might well bear in mind the placard said to be displayed in Japanese restaurants: "Visitors bring their own manners." Is it not conceivable that officers on the spot, grappling year after year with the difficulties of reconciling both sides of the Mandate, may have as just an appreciation thereof as persons, often in another continent or hemisphere, concerned solely with the advancement of their own cause ? 1 There can be no question of surrendering the Mandate ; of stopping immigration; or of continuing it on the recent intensive scale. What the basis of the scale should be, the Royal Commission may possibly indicate. But it can hardly attain for many years the hitherto accepted principle of 100 per cent entry according to the economic absorptive capacity 2 of Palestine at the moment of authorization. To absorb is not always to digest. There are reasons other than "political" for reduction. Early in 1936 the question of a subsidy to orange-growers was being raised by sections of the citrus industry, which already found it difficult to market nine and a half million boxes and trembled at the thought of placing the twenty to twenty-five million boxes anticipated in ten years time. And in general, the aftermath of a construction period, however brilliant, is a serious problem for the constructing trades and professions. 3 The Palestine as their enemy", he said. "They had in Palestine an Administration of 'crypto-Fascist officiais', whose objections to Parliament had taken the place of objections to the Jews. There is no change except by a complete reform of the Administration in Palestine." 1 Already in 1922 Philip Graves, then Special Correspondent for The Times in Palestine, records the Zionist practice of "ascribing their difficulties to the perversity of the Arabs, the intrigues of the Catholics ", above all to the " lack of sympathy " or "hostility" of British officials. 2 '"The economic absorptive capacity of the country," was a partially irrelevant and thoroughly misleading phrase.'" Survey of British Commonwealth Affairs, 1918-36. 3 As the Government of Northern Rhodesia found to their cost with hundreds of stranded and unemployable artisans on their hands when the price of copper fell.
110 ZIONISM AND PALESTINE impartial arbitrator could hardly fail to be interested by Dr. Weizmann's estimate 1 that Palestine could within the next fifty years support between fifty and sixty thousand more Jewish families, with an additional 100,000 agricultural Arabs, on the water supply now existing or soon procurable: and considerably more of both if that supply could be increased. It seems further possible that a Legislative Council on something near the lines of that which was frozen out in 1936, might be reintroduced ; and that the Zionists and associated forces would not repeat their mistake by opposing it again. As Mr. Amery has written: "To go on refusing representative Government as long as the Jews are in a minority is an almost impossible policy." The extreme and logical anti-Zionists (or pro-Arabs— they cannot be differentiated, though some would like to have it both ways) are for what they call a "clean sweep", meaning the abolition of the Mandate; apparently imagining that Palestine would nevertheless remain under British control, at all events proposing no alternative solution. Their opinions would command more respect if they organized themselves into some constituted public body prepared to devote time, brains and cash to the cause of an Arab as the Zionist has to a Jewish Palestine. Even so, they would shake not the Mandate but the Mandatory, Great Britain, whose place more than one Great Power would be only too happy (though certainly not more competent) to occupy. The Mandate, as I have said, cannot be shaken, for it is the united voice of fifty-two peoples speaking through the League of Nations, which for all its defects is the 1 Address delivered to the Royal Central Asian Society, 26 May 1936. The above figures are not recorded in the official summary of the proceedings. The census of 1931 estimated that, if present trends were continued, the population of Palestine would double itself in twenty years, the Moslem population in twenty-five years and the Jewish population in nine years. The Jewish population in 1931 was 17 per cent, of the total population of Palestine: in 1935 27 per cent.
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