Political report of the Executive of the Jewish Agency submitted to the ... Zionist Congress and the ... session of the Council of the Jewish Agency · 1937-08-01 · 8.1937 · p. Seite 106

106 uniform policy in all Government departments and offices in regard to the use of Hebrew. All documents, forms and correspondence issued to the public should be couched in the official language of the section of the population to whom they are addressed. Every effort should be made to the end that the maximum number of officials should be trilingual and that, in any case, officials should know the ianguage of the community with whom they are mostly required to deal. 4. Considerable resentment has been aroused in the Jewish « community by a recent innovation in the public reading of the Hebrew name of Palestine in official announcements. Whereas formerly the full name 'Eretz Israel" used to be read, the new practice is to substitute for this name a meaningless composite of the Hebrew initials of the two words. This ludicrous distortion is effensive to Jewish feeling and self-respect. No people can be expected to accept with equanimity such distortion of the name of its country in its own language. It is clearly not within the competence of the Government to force non-existent words into the Hebrew vocabulary. X. PUBLIC SECURITY 1. Government has not maintained Jewish representation in the Palestine Police Force at a proper level. In the light of experience the Jewish Agency submits that the Palestinian section of the Police should consist of Jews and non-Jews in equal num-' bers. The Jewish Agency assumes that British policemen will form at least one-third of the whole Police Force. 2. The Jewish Agency considers the basic pay of the Palestinian police to be inadequate and would suggest that in order to make the service more attractive to Jews and increase the efficiency of the Force as a whole the monthly salary of a policeman be raised to £7. With regard to British police the Jewish Agency would submit the need for extending the contract period up to five years and make it renewable subject to the usual conditions. 3. The unsatisfactory results of the work of the Criminal Investigation Department during the recent disturbances both in general intelligence and in the detection of crime call for tne reorganisation of that section of the Force. The Jewish Agency^ submits that such re-organisation should proceed on the principle that all responsible duties in the C.I.D. be entrusted to British Officers. The unsatisfactory state of the prosecution of crime by the Police calls for a similar remedy. 4. With regard to the Transjordan Frontier Force it has been a standing grievance of the Jewish Agency that the character of this Force is such as to preclude an adequate participation of Jews. In fact, Jews in the Transjordan Frontier Force number only