PALESTINE DISORDERS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 50, 27 August 1930, Page 9

PALESTINE DISORDERS

MANDATES COMMISSION'S REPORT

CRITICAL OF BRITAIN

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LONDON, 26th August.

The report of the Mandates Commission on tho Palestine disorders expresses the opinion that they cannot be regarded as a sudden explosion of popular passion. Although the Arab attack, directed against the Jews, was caused by resentment, the trouble was really duo to political disappointments, attributable by the parties of the mandate primarily to Britain.

The report criticises the inadequacy of the intelligence service, also of the armed forces, and concludes with the statement that the execution o£ the mandate has not given satisfaction either to the impatient advocates of a Jewish national home or to the Arab extremists who were alarmed at the influx of non-Arab immigrants. BRITAIN REPLIES AT LENGTH. A long British reply to criticisms expresses gratification that the Govern* raent has been acquitted of failure of its obligations or immediate duties in relation to the regime of self-govern-ment, but expresses 'the opinion that the Commission's findings are inconsistent with the previous yearly approvals of Britain's administration. It points out that Arab claims were always incompatible with the execution of the mandate. The Arabs always rejected Britain's offer to associate Arabs and Jews in representative government. It is considered most surprising that the Commission does not mention Britain's obligation to safeguard the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants, which is the crux of the whole problem. The Commission accepted ex parte statements, while ignoring judgments of the Shaw Commission, notably that the outbreak was not premeditated. OBJECT OF OUTBREAK. The memorandum dissents from the view that the outbreak was against British authority. It was against the mandate and the action of the League and British authority was only implicated as the mechanism of the Mandate Commission which, in the opinion of Britain, failed in important respects to carry out the mandate and appears to have accepted the more extreme Jewish contentions. Further, it is not within the mandatory's powers, but is the Jewish Agency's task to establish a Jewish national home.