FUTURE OF PALESTINE
COMMITTEE'S REPORT AWAITED.
(United Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, March 24. The Prime Minister (Mr Ramsay MacDonald) was asked in the House oi Commons whether the Government re-o-arded the major questions of policy in Palestine as outside the terms of reference to the Committee, which had. been investigating last year's disorTlie Prime Minister replied: "The major questions of policy are for the Government to determine. It was announced in September last that when the report of the Committee had been received the Government would consider along what lines, within the terms of the mandate, the future policy of Palestine could be directed. The question the Government will consider, but I certainlv am not prepared to say that its conclusions will not be affected by the report of the Committee Replying to further questions, Mr MacDonald said that after the Government had studied the report it would consider whether to set up a Royal Commission in connection with tho future of Palestine, or give a decision itself on the subject.-—British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 140, 26 March 1930, Page 5
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