PALESTINE DISORDERS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11535, 28 August 1930, Page 3

PALESTINE DISORDERS

POPULATION PASSION

United Press Assn —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 26. The report of the Mandates Commissin on the Palestine disorders expresses the opinion that they cannot be regarded as a sudden explosion of popular passion. Although the Arab attack directed against the T®ws caused resentment, the trouble was really due to political disappointments attributable to the larties of the mandate, primarily Britain. The report criticises the inadequacy" of the Intelligence Service, tilso of the armed forces and concludes that the execution of the mandate has not given satisfaction eitnei- to the impatient advocates of a Jewish national home or to -the Arab extremists who were alarmed at the influx of non-Arab immi-gi-ants. A long British reply to the criticisms expressed gratification that the Government has been acquitted of failure of its obligations or immediate duties in relation to the regime of self-government, but expresses the opinion that the Commission s findings are inconsistent with the previous yearly approvals of Britain’s administration. It pOmts out that the Arab clams were always incoriipatible with the execution of the mandate and always rejected Britain’s offer to associate Arabs and Jews in a representative Government. It is most surprising that the Commission does not mention Britain’s obligation to safeguard the civil and religious rights of ail the inhabitants which is the crux of the whole problem. The Commission accepted ex parte statements while ignoring the judgments of the f i r w Commission, notably that the <■ utbjeak was not premeditated. The memorandum dissents' from the mow that the outbreak was against British authority. ft: wns against tie mandate and the action of tbe League and the . British authority was only implicated as the meclunism oi the Mandate Commission, which in the opinion, of Britain, failed in important respects to carry out the mandate, and appears, to h o accepted the 1 more" ctrlr-eine' Jewish contentions,, Further,, .it is, not with 111 the mandatory ’ Bowers, but is • ‘ e Jewish Agency’s task to establish a Jewish national home.