p.

3.

apt to work continuously & aimlessly. And to spend an
awful amount of time thinking about things before doing
them. & often not doing them at all. And this is a bad
waste of time. Really, the only thing for me to do is to
mind my own business more, & make up my mind that I
am only an unimportant major & these other things are
no concern of mine. And get through my own dull
work as quickly & efficiently as possible - & then organise
the remaining time into private reading & writing.
that sounds fairly simple, but I do not expect that
it will work out at all.

Your no 90 was a most interesting letter, my darling.
You enclosed a cutting from the New Statesman on
the Palestine issue. but you did not comment on it.
But what it says is all perfectly correct. From a military
point of view - quite apart from any other - the Jews have
been snubbed & insulted & ignored all the time; whereas
the Arabs have been appeased & courted & flattered. And the
Arabs as soldiers are plain bloody useless, totally unreliable,
& would probably, & I mean probably, turn against us if
the Nazies were to get into Palestine.

It is really necessary to put the Jews & Arabs into their
proper perspective, & to see them as they really are, instead
of as we popularly suppose them to be.

In England we see the Jews as smart people at business
& money - money lenders, jewellers shops, buying & selling
faulty [cloth?] & second hand goods in general, shady lawyers
etc etc. & it is much the same in Germany, France
& other European countries. The explanation given to me
for this is that they have always been an opressed
people, driven from place to place & country to country -
& that they have never been allowed to own land