PALESTINE PARTITION

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 July 1937, Page 7

PALESTINE PARTITION

ARAB DEFIANCE 1 ( [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, July 9. ! “Partition is impossible unless Bri- 1 tain uses force,” declared Abdul Hadi, one of the Arab Higher Committee. “The Arabs will not yield Haifa or Tiberias for any money. It is not a matter of economics but of honour. Would Britain sell Portsmouth to Germany? We are weak, we have no t guns and no poison gas, but we have < the same hearts as the British.” j APPEAL TO MOSLEM RULERS. (Received' July 10, 11 a.m.) JERUSALEM, July 9. The Arab Committee requested Ibn Saud, Iman Yemen, the Emir of transJordania, and the King of Iraq, in the name of God and religion, to intervene against the partition of Palestine. AMERICAN JEWS’ OPINIONS. (Received 1 July 10, 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 9. Jewish leaders almost universally condemned the Palestine report. Samuel Untermeyer called the plan a major disaster. Rabbi Stephen Wise said it was the gravest betrayal of a most sacred trust. Louis Lipsky said it- would satisfy neither Jews nor Arabs. Some .spokesmen cautioned against unreserved condemnation, and asked that the Jews give, consideration to the matter at the Jewish Congress. LORD PEEL’S BROADCAST [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] RUGBY, July 9. The Palestine report will probably he debated in both Houses, prior to being laid before the permanent mandates commission at Geneva and the indications are that the majority of Commoners will support partition as the only practicable solution. Lord Peel (chairman of the Commission), in a broadcast last night, said: We tried hard to discover remedies within the scope of the mandate, but were forced to the conviction that the mandate itself must be revised or abandoned, and a new scheme of government set up. Both sides must make sacrifices, but to both great rewards are open.