The
hearts that are awaiting the British proposals regarding
Palestine this evening have been made heavier by the
death of the Czech nation and weighted by the inescapable
analogy. The
restitution of both the Jews and Czechs stemmed from the
same generous impulse a score of years back when the
world seemed on its way to sanity, and the forces responsible
for the destruction of one now menace the other.
. . . . For the Jews, the Plan offers the possibility for
neither further discussion nor future cooperation. This
must have been the burden of Dr.
Weizmann's communication to both the Premier and the
Colonial Secretary last evening. This visit to the Premier
is seen as an eleventh hour attempt to save the basis for
cooperation; if it proved fruitless, it means the end of
two decades of Anglo-Jewish collaboration just as the occupation
of Prague marks the end of the Versailles
era . . . .
The
disintegration of Czecho-Slovakia [sic] pours 350,000 more
Jews into the overflowing vessel of Jewish misery on the
very day that the British Government announces that the
admission of Jews into Palestine after a certain period
will be subject to Arab consent and for the present will
be circumscribed by the
Arabs' ambition for overlordship.
