To, the Editor of the "Norrs-Cuisa Day News.
Sit—Mr, Y. C, Hoe's letter in your fo-day's issue is welcome veadug. It fe evident that he owes it tovcertain critics which impels him say "there. is another. side the shield." Quite' 80, No' mover tment of national. importance can dispense with it., On the contrary, creates a healthy atmosphere for both sides in giving them a chance
their objective, Quoting" passages overcome stale and attain {rom Dr. Lil. E Fosdick's book, "A Pigrimage to Palestine" is quite in Jorder. But. Mr. Hoe should member that. another - Christian divine Dr. John Haynes Holmes, of Community: Church, New York, pilgrimed to. Palestine soon after "that, and wrote. a" book entitled "Palestine, To-day and To: morrow," which should be Tead as tweil, Between Fosdick and "sce divergence of opinion which renaind unt "Two men looked out through prison. bars The one saw mud, and the other Zionists are grateful ities, so long as they are fair and just,' Criticism is helpful and not injurious which stands on its confronting the tine are not few. They are many and need not' dishearten those who, in the words of Disraeli, when he told to a Jewish boy, "You and I belong to a race which can anything except fail."
Mr. Hoe must cite chapter and verse to show that as a result of the Balfour Declaration, the Arabs have actually suffered from, their civil and religious rights" to which they are entitled. On the trary, they have been helped the return of the ancient country. decade or 50, the Jews brought, into Palest wards of fifty million
lon' the purchase About one-half of this rents and taxes to the Government, importation of goods from abroad. The balance was expended constructive work. Commissioner Elwood Mead described the pro-leres of Jewish colonisation and Jagrieulture in Palestine as observed by him in the course of a study in that country as head of the Agricultural Section of the Palestine Survey Commission. "The Jachievements of the Jewish colonists deserve the grateful recognition lof the world." Dr. Mead declared. "They have been wrought under thard and discouraging conditions. instead of being an injury to the Arab, in many ways he has been fan immense gain. In a hundred ]ways Jewish settlement has brought modern civilisation into all parts lof Palestine, transformed poverty-stricken areas into places of Jopulent vegetation, and multiplied manifold the weal:). and. opportunjes of the country."
Instead of criticising the Jews Jand their work in Palestine, Mr. [Hoe should encourage them. While] leifing some adverse passages from jeertain critics, may I cite one recent letter of encomium addressed yes to the British Zionist Federation by the Secretary of the Pelestine High
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