“CANNOT BE BULLIED INTO CONCESSIONS.”

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19035, 2 April 1930, Page 9

“CANNOT BE BULLIED INTO CONCESSIONS.”

NEWSPAPERS PRAISE PALESTINE REPORTS.

(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received April 2, 12 noon.) RUGBY, April 1

Commenting on the report of the Palestine Commission, “ The Times ” says: “To sum up its contents in a phrase, the report makes a strong case for the definition of the practical limits of Zionist colonisation in Palestine if it is not to result in a poor Arab problem. But it suggests that the 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 the 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 Government’s intention to support that policy with all the 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 the fight against malaria. Gradually, by raising the standard of life, the Jews may hope to reconcile the Arabs to these experiments. Quite clearly the keys to the 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 and for all. In stressing this the .Commission have done well.”