LONDON: Dr. Maude Royden, lecturer, preacher and author … last night [Oct 26] said: “Jews will not find in Palestine the security which they are seeking and the Jewish State will be drawn into appalling danger, surrounded as it is by a sea of Arabs who are absolutely United against them.” She was putting the Arab case in a 30-minute discussion-broadcast in which … Sir Wyndham Deedes, the former Chief Secretary to the Administration in Palestine, put the Zionist case.

Dr. Royden… said that the Jewish secret army showed how little security the Jews expected. “Are the British prepared to keep a standing army in Palestine or are the United Nations to be counted on to undertake their protection?” she asked. Sir Wyndham Deedes in reply said: “The world at large has to find somewhere for the Jews and the only solution I can see is a national home for the Jews in Palestine… .”

“British fear of Arab action, if Palestine is opened to the Jews, are greatly exaggerated”, the New York “Daily News” declared today. “… Britain is well equipped to fulfil its promise to the Jews and quash any ‘Holy War’ the Arabs may try to fan in consequence.”

Published in Dawn, October 28th, 2020