PALESTINE: Equally Stern

Among the numerous Jewish political groups of Palestine is an extreme rightist organization called the New Zionist Organization, also known as the Jewish Fascists. This young men’s society, a terrorist group in its original Polish homeland, believes in the Old Testament eye-&-tooth principle when dealing with both British and Arabs. The New Zionists’ politics are repugnant to both the British Passport Office and the Zionist-operated Central Palestine Bureau. So visa applications to Palestine are invariably combed to eliminate the Jewish Fascists. A few have nevertheless slipped through.

Month ago an Arab bus in northern Palestine was fired on. In a nearby shed, British officers found three young Jewish Fascists, loaded with bombs, revolvers and rifles. British emergency regulations, prescribing the gallows for possession of arms, have been applied against Arab terrorists. Last week a British military court showed it could be equally stern with Jewish terrorists. The court condemned two of the young Jews to hang, sent the third to an insane asylum. Sole hope of clemency remained with Major General Robert Hadden Haining, commander of the British Palestine forces, who must confirm the sentences. If confirmed, the two convicts will be the first Jews to be hanged in Palestine since British occupation.