LABOUR AMENDMENT
PALESTINE DEBATE
PLAN INCONSISTENT
MATTER FOR MANDATES
COMMISSION
(Received May 23, 2.15 p.m.)
LONDON, May 22.
In the House of Commons. debate on the Palestine White Paper, Mr; Tom Williams (Labour) moved an Opposition amendment, declaring that as the proposals were inconsistent with the letter and spirit of the mandate, Parliament should not be committed to them before they were examined by the Mandates Commission yof the League. Mr. Williams said that the Colonial Secretary had destroyed what took Allied statesmanship years to build up. The Jews would become dependent on the benevolence of the Grand Mufti's supporters.
Mr. James de Rothschild (Labour) suggested to Mr., Mac Donald that the League should make Palestine a British colony. He added that permanent British rule under which neither Jew nor Arab need fear domination from the other was the only satisfactory safeguard. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 119, 23 May 1939, Page 10
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