Palestine
Sir,—B. R. Hansen’s letter (February 20) gives a wrong impression of Britain’s actions in Palestine, for which, post-World War I, she held the League of Nations’ mandate and which she fried to govern. even-handedly. Following the wresting of Palestine from the Ottoman Empire, the 1917 Balfour Declaration promised a national homeland there for the Jews without defining what that meant Like many woolly promises, it came home to roost That Britain did not
intend it to mean an independent Jewish State is clear from her actions after World War II in attempting to turn back the numerous ships bringing Jewish refugees, to Palestine and in her efforts to control the several Jewish terrorist and para-mili-tary organisations which sprang up. She earned almost universal opprobrium in so doing. The establishment of an independent State of Israel was the voted decision of the U.N., Britain abstaining.—Yours, etc.,
D. P. K. RENNICK. February 22, 1987.
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