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The Arab strike, which lasted six months, is over; violence, too, has temporarily subsided. The 30,000 soldiers whom Great Britain has dextrously slipped into Palestine will maintain order as a side duty, until something happens. A leading Arab said to the author that either a European war will break out in a year or two or it will not. If war comes, people shall have their chance because England will not be able to keep so many soldiers here. A Royal Commission will soon arrive to investigate the last outbreak and suggest a solution that will prevent bloodshed in the future. But Palestine has had commissions in the past. They have issued voluminous reports but they have not brought peace. Neither Arabs or Zionists are optimistic about the results of the new commission. British commissions are designed to safeguard British interests, not to help the country.

The article presents information about the book "The Arab Awakening: The Story of the Arab National Movement," by George Antonius. Never has the story of the origin and growth of the Arab national movement been told with such brilliance or with such a wealth of detail. That the author had to do his own digging at almost every point, since Near Eastern history is still a "tabula rasa," only heightens his accomplishment. The story begins, as it should, with the premature and disastrous attempt at national unification under Ibrahim Pasha. Aided by Great Britain, Turkey then not only succeeded in recapturing the Arab provinces but in tightening its grip on wider areas. Stimulated by the new ideas of nationalism brought by European Christian missionaries, Arab writers and poets began to dream of a cultural and linguistic rebirth; the literary roots of the new Arab nationalism are clearly traced here.