Reprint of Editorial and Cartoon from the Philadelphia Inquirer, "Shame, Britannia, Shame!"

Shame, Britannia, Shame! Great Britain's open connivance in Arab Britain massed against them. We doubt most aggression in Palestine, its support of the earnestly that if Winston Churchill were lead- Arab legions now seeking to level Jerusalem ing that government he would be employing with their bombs, is a shameful blot upon Mr. Bevin's tactics. that nation's history. They are tactics established to support al- British-paid mercenaries in the Trans- leged Allies who deserted them in World Jordan army are the spearhead of the invad- Wars I and II. Tactics established to maintain ing forces in the Holy Land. They are com- a divide-and-rule formula. Tactics established manded by officers in the British army by cold-blooded expediency and without headed by Brigadier John Bagot Glubb Pasha. moral justice. Tactics established by Mr. They are armed and equipped by the British. Bevin in setting up the Jew as a scapegoat to Their king, Abdullah, is on the payroll of the divert minds from Bevin's monstrous failures. British Empire. Tactics established to maintain the economic And while British policy in the Near East supremacy and complete control that British makes Great Britain a co-belligerent of the capital possesses in the Middle East, so that Arabs in their war against the new State of it shall not be disturbed in any respect. Israel, British policy in the United Nations It is British policy to pay annual subsidies seeks to hinder in every way every move that to support King Abdullah's troops. It is Brit- might stop the uneven conflict and prevent ish policy to continue sending arms to the further bloodshed. Arabs, in accordance with its treaties with It is the British who have taken the lead in the Arab states, unless the United Nations fighting the American proposal for a United should designate them aggressors. And it is Nations-enforced truce in Palestine, backed British policy to do everything possible at up if need be by the imposition of economic Lake Success to make sure the Arabs will not sanctions and the use of armed force. be termed aggressors-even as they march When this measure was presented by the into Palestine. U. S. delegate, this newspaper predicted that The shameful unfairness of British sup- it would be immediately enmeshed in debate port for the Arabs and British hostility to- and disputation that would subject it to end- ward the Jews, which leaves the latter de- less delay. What was forecast has happened fenseless while arming their enemies, is made -with the British leading the way in opposi- even worse by the fact that it is the Ameri- tion to the resolution. can taxpayer who is footing the bill for the No steps toward truce, but every possible British supplies sent the Arabs. move to help the Arabs execute their plans American funds granted under the Mar- for extermination of the Jews: that has be- shall Plan are intended for European recov- come the key policy of Great Britain. ery, not for the purpose of maintaining the England's traditional sportsmanship, even frail framework of far-flung British equi- evidenced when her landed gentry ride to the ties in all the corners of the earth. The Amer- hounds and allow the fox some opportunity ican taxpayer never intended his money to for escape and freedom, is missing. Surely be employed to help Britain's Arab mercen- the hunted, the beaten, the depressed Jews aries kill Jews. might be given a sporting chance to escape If, because of British hamstringing, we the annihilation the world's most educated cannot act through United Nations machin- people are prescribing for them, even if they ery to stop this war, the Government of the deny them any shading of humanitarianism. United States should take immediate steps There have been other chapters in world to prevent the outrageous diversion of its own history when bands of colonists had to battle funds for the implementation of this ghastly for their lives against the overwhelming odds aggression. Reprinted from The Philade/phia Inquirer, May 21, 1948. de