PALESTINE MANDATE

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 107, 2 April 1930, Page 7

PALESTINE MANDATE

COMMISSION’S REPORT. POLICY STATEMENT NECESSARY. LONDON PAPERS’ COMMENT. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received April 2, 10.50 a.m. RUGBY, April 1. Commenting on tho report of the Palestine Commission, the Times says: “The report makes a strong case for a definition of the practical limits of Zionist colonisation in Palestine. But tho first, and most obvious, duty of the mandatory Power is to leave no doubt whatever in the mind of either race that this country intends to retain the mandate with which the League of Nations has entrusted it, and to maintain law and order throughout tho country. So long as that is clearly understood there is everything to be said for a clear re-statement of the terms of the mandate and of the policy by which it is to be carried out in practice.” The Daily Telegraph says: “The report goes to the root of the matter in insisting that what is needed and without delay as between Jew and Arab is a statement of policy which shall leave neither community in any doubt as to its position and its guaranteed rights under the mandate or the Balfour Declaration, or as to the Governments’ intention to support that policy with all necessary vigour. The Manchester Guardian says: “The task to which we are committed in Palestine is, at the best, one of the utmost delicacy. It is a problem which we are bound to solve without injustice to the present population. “It is in the solution of the economic problem that hope for Palestine largely lies. Jewish culture and Jewish capital have already done much' to improve the condition of the country as, for instance, in tho fight against malaria. Gradually by raising the standard of life the Jews may hope to reconcile the Arabs to experiments. “Quite clearly, the key problems of immigration and land. purchase require expert study and control and more detailed examination than they have yet received. Above all, the suspicion that the administration can be bullied into concessions or deflected by political cajolery must be banished once for all. “In stressing this the commission have done well.”