PALESTINE PARTITION
LABOUR PRESS REPORT. [RY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, December 30. A serious Cabinet cleavage has arisen about the future of Palestine, savs the political'' correspondent of rhe “Daily Herald.” Influential Ministers. including Sir Samuel Hoare (Secretary of State for Home Affairs), Lord Winterton, Lord Zetland (Secretary of State for India), Lord Halifax (Lord President of the Council). are strongly urging the Prime Minister (Mr Chamberlain) to abandon the proposed plan for the partition of Palestine into Arab and. Jewish states, to abandon the Jewish national Home proposal, as conceived by the Balfour Declaration, and to limit Jews to a. permanent minority status in an All-Arab Palestine state. Their 'argument is that it is impossible to carry through the partition of Palestino’in the teeth of Arab hostility, and the opposition of the whole Jewish population to the details.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 December 1937, Page 7
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