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The Palestine

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Situation

_ lkpropos thc tu1l1u!1-11; .-i111;1111111 i11 Palestine, 1t 1s worth 1111111114, .1. .1 1111111; in the British Govcrniticins stitu-nu-n; o1 Aug-us: 14, that no country in the world 1111s bccn a l1ctter or more Nflsiitent friend 111 thc _l-.-11"isl1 people than Britain. \\'l11-n 1'; 1‘ 1111c» pt-rst-cittcd by 111;. Ier, thc l‘11'i:1.~l1 1-1-1-1111- 11111 111111‘ protested niost vigorously, bu: 1cc1-111-1l 11 1111141- l1o1lv of refugees from Nazi l1.‘1rl1;1ri-111 111111 1'1 r c111u1try. liven during thc 11:11‘, 11111-11 llr;11~l11-rs were hard- prcsscd 1111" shclu-r 11nd stipplit-s, 11111rc 1vcrc al- lowcd i11. 41111111111 refugees- — a large 11111purti1111 11f 1111-111 luvs —- landed in Britain.

1t 1111s 11111l1-r the British hlztudate that nrarly 5110411111 11-11". st-ttlcd lcgllllv’ in Palestine, where a grcut lcwish coninnuntv 111111‘ exists. ,\\'hcn it 1111s thrtaiviu-tl 11i1l1 Nazi invasion —- l terrible thrcztt 111 lllg l':111-_~ti11i:111 lc\\'s-—Bri- fish arms prcvtiitcd 111111 1111-1111 pOsslhllllY. The Jews in lhllcstittc 111-11- given arms so that they might 11¢ equipped i111‘ lll(’lf own dcfcncc against thcir ivutild-bc lidttidzttors from Nazi Grmativ, and 111 e11.1l1le 1110111 to inlrtulcc in the C0mm011 struggle. L'111lcr the Union Jack there are no 1x1gron1s: jcws enjoy all the rights of civil libcrty.

Such is the record of (‘treat Britain, now the subject of bittcr and unfair attack by many- though by no iticaus Zlll-jl(‘\\'5, 011 account of

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'the 1111112111113,‘ evcnts in Pulcstinc, i11 the course,

0f which lritish >11'.1licrs doing their duty have been killcd, \v111111dc<l 111111 lv-ithtappcd, not in open and straightf111-1var1l l111ttle, but fro111 am- bush and even in the cruirse of hospitality. llforeover, civil servants scrving Palestine no less than Britain, and urdiuaiw‘ quiet citizens going about their pcaccful lnisincss have been the victims of 1111tragc more worthy of Nazis than of the ‘lcwish victims of Nazis.

Against this lmclcgrotiiid, the British Govern- ment give the facts, and their decision about the illegal immigration to Palestine _\vl1icl1 threatens b11111 civil 11111‘ 11nd a l1rcakd0\vn of govcrnnlcnt in that historic land. lu Decem- ber, 1945, thc 111111111 of 75.1100 Jewish immi- grants pcrmitted to enter Palestine tinder thc provisions of the 111111. 1511101- was cxhaustcd. Nevertheless, pend-ling :1 finul decision 011 thc future policy i111‘ lfitlcstiuc, llritaiu authorized the coininuancc of _l1-1v.~il1 inuuigrzition at th'e rate of 1,500 111111111111’. Itistcad of this provis- ion being accept-ml tu-ndiug dccisions on long- term ixtlicy, thcrc 111s 1101-11 1111 increasing flow‘ of illegal immigrants into Palestine. The num- bers 11f flu-st: ilk-gal immigrants have to'be set off against the 111111111111‘ 1|uot:1s, and those al- ready held in cauips in Palestine or on ships in Haifa harlr-ur arc ni-rc than stifficietit to ab- sorb 111g “huh; 1|u111;1 for 111:1uy months ahead. Ialowcvcr, illcgzil inunigrutits in considerable numbers arc 1111111111 111 111- 1111 their way to Pales- tine. Xlnvcd l1_v <1u1p.'11l1v for the stiffering of [hg lgu-idr lvgtmlc in litiropt: thc British Govcriimtuu 1111s l1 ".11 11111111111 ill-sgzil immi- grants 111 1111111, i11 stric 11f the grave embarrass- mcnt cnilstul 111 1111- llillc-lillt‘. ztutl1oritv 110111 in the 11111111111-11111111111 111' 1111- quota and hv thc ne- ccssitv for dctuinivg in camps those whose cu- try 1111511111 i1111111-1li 1-lv 1111-~1l1lt 11111101‘ the 111111111.

T111: f111‘l:1-:11':1111"1- thus shown 11v thc- (iuvcrn- mgm 1111.; l1<)\\‘l‘\'t".', 1101-11 iutcrprt-tcd by those responsible for 1111- ttz-tfiiv as :1 sign of wcak- 1185s, and as an z11---1111"-.-11t 111 rcduuble lhcir ef~ forts 111 iucrcasc- 1111: 111111- 11f illt-gul inunigraitis still further. lfcwun‘. 111-111-1-1111111-1115 have rc- vealed this traffic :1.- 11 11i<lclv 111111111111 and highly (trganizcrl 1111111-1111-111 51111111111011‘ l1v_vcr\' large finflnflfll c1111tril111ti1111s from [tom-st sources, which 1111s l-ct-n built t1p.and nut into opcration by lllls.'l'll{)lll11ll< 111-12-11115 111 1111 at- tempt-t-o force 1111- llllllll 1 ' llis llilicslws (iov- ornmcnt and a11ticE,.. r decision on future policy in Palestine. 'l‘u<; organizers maintain a closely-knit nctwork of zigt-nts in the countries of Eastern and 511111111-1-11 liuropc, 11v whom con- siderable 1111111l1crs of displaced lcws are mov- ed from 11011115 of <lc-p:1rt111'c as f11r (l-istant as Poland down to the .\l(‘flll(‘rl‘flllf‘flll scaboard. Thaw-e, herded into <1\'(‘l'-(‘l'f)\\’(l(‘(l and tin-sea- worthy ships with insufficient food, and in con- ditions of thc utmost 1111111151111 and squalor, they arc ltrought across tl11- .\lt.‘(.lilCl'l'flllC-'\l1'lfl' spired by a conviction, carcfullv instilled into 111cm, that this is their only road t0 safety. In" all this process, the laws and K211111110“ 0f the countries concerned arc ignored; identity and ration card's, travcl documents, ctc., are forged onn large scale: food, clothing. medical supplies and‘ transport, provided by UNRRA and other agencies for thc rclicf of suffering in Europe, are diverted to the maintenance of what i; openly described as the "Underground Railway to Palestine." _

Apart from its illegality, the immigration and traffic to Palestine is a source of Brave danger to law and ordcr in Palestine. The g gm and gitarding nf lflfllq numbers of il-

l nu places a sevcre strain on the

v Their arrival has greatly in- creased,’ lhftensldnhfween the Arabs and the Jgwlgh communities in Palestine. Since there is fllettrrorist element among the been- jorccd from the ranks 0f ‘l-heir promiscuous introduc-

tion clearly cannot be tolerated any longer. Accordingly, immigrants arriving illegally are henceforward being conveyed to Cyprus or else- wherc, and housed in camps there until a decis- ion can be taken as to their future.

I11 announcing this decision, His Majesty's Government made it clear that, while they can- not tolerate this attempt b_v a minority 0f Zion- ist extremists to create a situation prejudicial to a iust settlement, they are deeply sensible of the sufferings undergone by the Jewish com- munity and are anxious to bring them to an end as soon as possible.

It is clcar that a tierinanent solution can only be brought about if lcws and Arabs are pre- pared to enter upon discussions t0 devolve a practical scheme for harmonizing the claims ol these two historic peoples.

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A strilcitig instance of the extent to which bureaucratic control is titidcrniining democracy i11 Canada was given in the House of Commons the othcr day by Mr. j. .\l. i\IFlCIl0llllt‘l1. Streak- ing on the FGFClIIH 1i hatige Control Bill, 11nd noting that the business community was not represented whcn the llill was first discuss- ed, .\Ir. hlacdonnell said:

“Business people do not like to come down lit-re and saj,‘ things that are unacceptable to

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Notes By The Way

While the shortage of coal neat- wtnter may be alannlnir under present conditions, yet we are told by Ottawa not to become unnec- essarily excited about it. Apparently they want us to remain cool next wlnter! -Wa!var.1-sa Optinlst.

Now they're mnklng u radio- clnck which will waken the own- er ln the morning by turning on the set to a pro-determined pro-I gram. What with all the programs, of sugar-charged good chccr and, frantically enthusiastic gossip sos-, sions between husband and \v fc which seem to fill the air around getting-up time, it wouldn't s11r- prise us if a lot of potential cus- tomers would stick to the sooth- lng, fire-house jungle of thr- old alarm clock. —Cal_-.:ary Albertan.

Dr. Morris Fishbeln wlsecrackc-d to r1 Milwaukee tiudicnce that “ln Amt-rim there 1s one automobile for every four and ll half people-- you can find the half on any road. 1g you get thou- ahcad of 1110 ambulance", says The IvInwaulL-c Journal. He could have go-zc on to say that the ‘hart persons" under the wheels, r100: souls, were thc victims of the hall-wits behind the wheels. But the murderous motor- ist l5 really 11o subject I01 humrr, especially when he hits cl0$€ to home.

About a vear- now, if things

the powers-that-be. i11 partmcut have great p0\vc1‘. that.

Lioverntncnt business.

The officials I 1vant to press Let us look at the facts.

tioual income has doubled ovcr 10 ycars. Because the Dominion (iovcrnineiit was in bus- iness, bccatisc more than half our business was Is there any mystery,

the d6‘ go according to plan, astronomers

gazing through 1:16 EYQIW-‘fl (If “ll- telescopes will be able 1.0 ‘see about eight times as tnrtch “universe as it now visible to star gaze-rs. 5211s The Brantford Expositor, For the summer of 1347. 1t 1s hoped. tuc $6,C00,0D0 super-telescope will bq 11* position ut the Mount Palomar

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r-ms-msroruo I TRANSPORTATION

Sun-After several hours delay the most ancient transportation system known landed us on Prince Edward Island. Everything adver- tised about Prince Edward I11- land's scent-c beauty, climate, roll, 010., ls quite true. Nature has been kind to you. I hope you won't mind my saying that the people show little interest on-how to get on and off the Island. Complac- cntgv seems lo be the watrhword with many when it comes to transportation to and from the Is- land, It, is quite safe to say tlzut the transportation system between an Island and the mainland should h1- operatr-d 11nd controlled for the bent-fit of its iaeople by the 1121:1110 for thc pcoplc, and that outlet should be that the "noplc could use it every minute of the clay or night. The people need a transportation shot in the arm. Maybe thcrc is some truth in the statement we have heard that the ambitious. luird working, imagin- ative, prngrcsslve people left Prince Edward Island years ago 11nd evcry day since to go west and to thc south r-f the border and left behind thc satisfied, coir.- placent pr-oplo 11-110 find it easier to entertain things as they are.

I um, Sir. etc. I). W. STEWART, Bucksport, Mame,

Canadian cabinet iiilnhtex. Poat-ziiuster-General Bert.- rand, admitted taut he had been lr-volved tn nbtamlnfl W! “l!”

port. Earlier that. morning The Qmegte had published the num- ber of William Brandls‘ natural- lutlon papers -z21r1o. Series Y1 In his statement to the House. Mr. Bertrand said that "there wa_s_ nothing but absolute good faith 1n his behrsvlo-lr. He had been cle- oelved by Brandi: and by a cemun Aaron Mgr¢0\'ltci\ who had work- ed on his committee all through the elections of I935. If"! Wh° Ye- quested his support In obtaining Brandls’ ralurahzatlon. There ls certainly no question whatever that Mr. Bertrand was in any way in collusion w.th Com- munlsm or was deliberately help- ing Brur-ills ln his destlll"? @8831“ the Woolwlch Arsenal. But neither L1; there any question that be al- lowed himself to be used as a very effective tool ln the Communist plot. This is something that a man in his P0511101 ntcd not and ought not to have done. The incident discloses quite strik- fngly the loosenrss o1 method which has made ll: possible fur Soviet agents to work their way into 1111s country. The fact ls that M1‘. Bcrt- rand recommended for naturaliza- tton a Soviet agent of whom he had no real pa-son-rl knowledge. Yet in hts lectz-r to the otflccr 111 charge 01f naturalization ‘n1: declar- ed this man to he "absolutely re- commendable from all angles." O-bvlously, the cfflccr 1:: charge of naturalization acted noon i111:

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statement as Help? accurate, 111111211 lt. actually came only from the dc- ceptlous of Aaron Marcovltch.

No doubt Mr. Bertrard 1215x111 0c fairly described as the 111mm 11f a lcosc system rather than us particularly responsible for it Bu. the instance only strengthens the reasons whv me Government should

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then, in saying that people are a little shy of coming down here and saving tltings that Gnv- crutncuts do 11ot like? lust examine the cx- tent t0 which (itivernmcut is in lnisiness of all kinds, and sec how 11111cl1 the income of busi- ness, even of the lmuks, depends on the good will of the (i0\‘€l'lllll€lll and of the governor of the Bank of Canada and the financial a11tl1or- ities. That is as true as we are standing lterc."

(jonuneiitiug on this statcitieut The Iiinmirial Post remarks:

"If this is true, and there would seem to be considerable confirmaliott, it is obviously an un- healthy condition and one which etidangers demo- cracy. It is only through constructive and justified criticism that government will be ‘kept on its toes.’ The attthorities should welcome criticism and should prefer to have it out in the open where it may better be answered or a remedial action taken.”

- EDITORIAL NOTES .-

Now we are into Veterans’ \\'cck — thc most important period of thc year. >11 ill * i‘

Probably Vcteraus Minister Ian Mackenzie will visit here in the company of Field Marshal Lord Montgomery.

>11 111 11- lVhile Truman

the crisis is on in Europe, President considers it ncccssziry to take a long vacation somewhere at stun-where he has been mentally any1vav, ever since sticcccding Prest- dcnt Roosevelt. 111 =11 >11 >11

It has been a wcck of out-of-dours, eating, etc, of course, but something really should be done to rid the streets of discarded paper; rarely have our usually well kept thoroughfares looked so disreputable.

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The first rail of Prince Edward Island laid, and the first 11ail in our colonial coffin ham- mered, this date I872. It was lllg debt incurred financing the Island railway that lcd to our ac- ceptance of previously reiectcd terms to enter Confederation.

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Dry weather has pushed harvesting operations throughout (‘Jntario and farmers report better 1111111 average grain crops this ycar, the U11- tariu JJc-partiiiciit ol Agriculture reveals. In \\'cuL\vortl1 county where grain crops are thc heaviest i11 ycztrs, farmers have received the necessary labor through the help of men 110w 011t on strilvc.

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Herc are a few health "keeps". The nbicct of wearing clothing is to keep thc heat in thc 111111)‘, not to keep the cold out. The heart has to work ovcrtimc when tllc proper tcntpcraturc is not maintaincd—0r indispositiott cnsucs. If we ltcci) feet, liver and kidneys comfortable with woollcns, it is nluch more effective than an apple a day i11 keapivq the doctor away.

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'l‘roops, ntostly Canadians, landcd on six bcachcs on thc cncmv occupied coast of Dicppe in thc early morning of this dine, 1942, in thc greatest combined operations raid. Despite heavy opposition in some places, most of the objec- tivcs, iticltitlittg the (lcstruction of two batteries, atmnunitions dump, and radio location station, were attaincd, and troops were re-embarked ill- ter nine hours. The Navy escorted the force, and the R.A.F. supported the landing; 91 enemy aircraft were destroyed or damaged, and 98 R.A.l". aircraft were lost; as ivcre also one destroyer and many landing craft.

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Domestic troubles had their turn at discussion in Parliament last week. Women wvithout stockings are losing some of their glamor Mr. Pat Conroy, Canadian Congress of Labor of- ficial commented in a discussion of current price trends before the Commons Industrial Re- lations Committee. Mr. Conroy was being ques- tioned by john Blackmore (S.C.-Lethhridge) and the discussion took on seine rcsetnlilance to an over-lhe-back-fence housewives discus- sion with Mr. Blackmore citing complaints of his wife and Mr. Conroy agreeing that his wife found things generally the same. Mr. Black- more, forinstauce, said his family had a lot of trouble with poor quality shoes. Then he tlfll around t0 stockings and said his wife found stockings did not last long. "My biggest tron ble is looking at women without stockings," Mr. Conroy said. ,"I haven't much of an artis- tic sense but I Think males would have l better

artistic sense if women wore stockings."

Observatory near Los Angclrfs- Willi the Palomar telescope, astronomers will be able to look‘ 6.000.000.00Q.- 000.000.000.600 milcs 1:110 the skies from 1; vag-ptgr; point 5.600 fcc. above sea level. The manager of u Melbourne hotel had for supper a plate of oysters. four glTzSSICS af sautcrie and a large hclpmg of chicken. “This was 81'? first t1me_1n my life I had oystetz," he sato. "They gave me a comfortable (ac-lug and I went to 5130p easily. But I woke up saying 175,248 . I75,‘_J48 My wife talked me irro vrritlug to the manage. .-nt of a Tasman- ian lottery ‘.1 ask for the 11c! '-t bearing that number." Hr got V. —and it won for 111m the first prirc of 10.000 pounds. —From Australian News.

Whatever reception Beethoven may have expected for his Eight. Symphony ne nmcr drcamcd that it could be made almost l-iatzrliblc Iby a plane passing over the or- chestra whlcn wts performing it Yet that is what hnppenol on the Esplanade. Of course the concert.- goers were upset arxl listeners on a coast-to-coast brradcast vicndcri-d. what w-as thc trouble with their radios. Planes in the air .:pcvc 11s may be dlvldod mto three classes. There are the military planes, flown under order by Atmv or Navy pilots. There are also the commercial planes operated bv 1'10 aviation companies. In addition are private tlvt-is, rarclv up 111 night. Already 11 gentleman: ain't"!- ment has been nrd? with the ctr lines to avoid disturbing assem- blages on the grcun-f. As for the military they are tzndcr dcfinic orders to b:- rarcful. The 111111110111 is bcirg lmndlcd with lelicac-v, and there seems good rt-ason 1o believe that this method vlll 111-111: the desired results. --Boslon Globe.

Touring, P. E. I.

The Cloak of Silence

(Montreal Gamtfei

It ls becoming increasingly evid- cnt, that “ir-Tormatlon" in the vleav of the Govt-rumtnt. is u-hat may b: conveniently made public. If it i1: inconvenient 1t is not lr-form- atlon.

Inst-mces have been multiplying of this defensive attitude towards legitimate requests for ‘cgittmate facts. when. inquiries are pressed, they encounter a hardening of thc governments resistance. The quest- ioner finds that he has no "rlghfl to the information. c-r lililli ltpls not in the "pilbl-c interesL" to (I15- close it, or that ihe “proper auth- ority" has not been addressed. or that the matter is "privtlegeck. So 1t is that the cloak of silence ls spread and thc- suspicion ls raised that 1t covers 11 multitude of gov- ernmental slrs.

The questions of the false pass- port given to ‘ht.- so-called William Brzmdis is an instance of this fer.- dcncy. It is surely 11 matter of some pitblic interest that a Soviet spl‘. 1v*lshir-'. to gam entrance into E1113"- land tu nct against. the Woolwlclt Arsenal, c-btnr-ierl a Canadian pass- port to vvhlclt he was in no way entitled. It is no less a matter for public knowledge that a Canadian mrmbcr nf Parliament, now a mem- bcr of the Gauacian cabinet, re- commended 1.1m for naturalizat- ion.

Yct when an attempt was made to gait‘. LlClElilS on this matter, the rcspnns: of ..)- cials was ‘mcooper- alive and v0. The ' on Brandls co d nor be obtained. A111 ‘when the matter w-ts raised l1: ‘the House of Commons, following

a siurv in The Gazette. Rt. Hon. l Lculs S1. Laurent, Minister of Just-

act upon the advice of she Royal Commissioners who so recently ‘m- vestlguted Soviet espionage 111 this country.

For in their flr-al recotr-mendat- Ions thc Royal COmmlssfu!‘.?rs' cle- cl-xred that they had evidence "in- dicating that naturallzatlovi cen- lficates have been improperly 0'9- talned" and suggested “that the condltior! surrounding the Issue of these documents might b:- the subject of consideration by 1h:- proper authority.‘

'I'he ease with which Brundis obtained his naturalization tmpcn 1s certainly a very impressive 1n- stance why ‘he proper 111111101111 should make the matter the stibjcct of lls vigorous consider-dicta The incident has now become of public interest for two rcnsons I‘. shows the carelessness of .1 public servant ln this lmrtloulrir tnstame, and the apparent reluctance of 11n- other public SGPV-nfll. to disclose the relevant itiformntior.

If the officials of the Govern- ment would '.n fizture give the in- formation freelv when it. 1s askec for, it would save the publlc from frustration and itself Ircvn em- barrassment. Th5 truth may a’. times be lncouvenlent, but it come= out with a heifer grace lJI.‘lOl"'. rather than ‘iftct. concealment.

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