PALESTINE PARTITION

Evening Star, Issue 22720, 6 August 1937, Page 9

PALESTINE PARTITION

THE BRITISH PUN NOTES! FftSM IRAQ ' Press Aseoeiation—By Telegraph—Copyright GENEVA, August 5. Tie Iraq Government sent a Note to the League’s Mandates Commission emphatically protesting against the Royal Commission’s Palestine proposals. The Note describes the partition proposal as an. injustice to _ the Arabs, which Iraq would not view without alarm, and it adds: “ The proposals are incompatible with the integral independence of Palestine, holding out no hope of a permanent settlement. Such hope depends on recognition of an integral independent Palestine, in which the Jews accept once and for all the position of a minority.” Discmiw IN CAMERA ZURICH, August 5. (Received August 6, at 1 p.m.) The Congress decided to discuss the political aspects of the Palestine proposals in camera. PRESENT MANDATE UNWORKABLE GENEVA, August 5. (Received August 6, at 10 a.m.) Assurances that Britain had done her hest under the Palestine mandate, which had proved unworkable, were given by Mr Ormsby Gore, who later loft for London and will not return to Geneva until needed.