BRITISH FOREIGN AFFAIRS
♦ SPEECH BY MR. ARTHUR
HENDERSON PALESTINE MANDATE (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, October 2. In a speech on foreign affairs at the Labour Conference at Brighton to-day, Mr. Arthur Henderson (Foreign Secretary) said: “The British Government has no intention of reconsidering, as has been suggested, the British tenure of the mandate for Palestine. There is no question of altering the position in regard to the mandate or the policy laid down in the Balfour Declaration of 1917 in favour of creating Palestine as a national home for the Jews. Our policy is still to protect the civil and religious rights of all inhabitants irrespective of race or religion.'’ When the report of the Commission of Inquiry into the recent disorders was received the Government would consider the means within the terms of the mandate by which its future policy in Palestine would be directed.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 8, 4 October 1929, Page 7
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