OUR particularly well-informed Jerusalem correspondent reports in another column that the one result of Lord Balfour’s visit to Palestine has been immensely to stimulate the Arabs’ bitter resentment of the British mandate. If Lord Balfour’s mission to Jerusalem was a blunder, what can be said of the political folly that allowed the visit to Damascus? Trouble, as the Times special correspondent reported, was anticipated. The French have shown little enthusiasm for that co-operation in the Near East which General Weygand declared was an “imperious necessity”, and their zeal is not likely to be stimulated by the Damascus incident. The Church Times digital archive is available free to subscribers.

Source: The Times April 17, 2025 00:27 UTC