PALESTINE MANDATE
BRITAIN’S POLICY STATED WILL OBSERVE OBLIGATIONS [ British Official Wireless. ] RUGBY, April 3. The Prime Minister, asked in the House of Commons by Mr Stanley Baldwin whether ho was now in a position to make a statement regarding the policy in Palestine, replied: “The Government will continue to administer Palestine in accordance with the terms of the mandate as approved by the Council of the League of Nations. That is an international obligation upon which there can be no question of receding. Under the terms of the mandate His Majesty’s Government are responsible for promoting the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of the existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights or political status enjoyed by the Jews in other countries. A double understanding is involved to the Jewish people on the one hand and to the non-Jewish population of Palestine on the other, and it is the firm resolve of His Majesty’s Government to give effect in equal measure to both parts of the declaration and to do equal justice to all sections of the population in Palestine. That is a duty from which they will not shrink and to the dis-
< harge of which they will apply all the resources at their command.
“The report of the commission covers a wide field. The commission was appointed to consider the immediate causes of the deplorable disturbances in August last and to suggest means to present their recurrence. In endeavouring faithfully to carry out their terms of reference, the Commission must have found it very difficult to draw the line very rigidly. The Government arc now studying the various recommendations of the Commission with a
view to dealing with the immediate causes of the outbreak and to prevent the : recurrence and they are in con>iination with the interests concerned. I wish i 1 to be understood that this statement includes the immediate provision of the pn I: cc force requiring to secure civil peace in the existing circumstances. ’
Nfr Baldwin said he thought Mr MacDonald had gone as far as he could at the moment and that his statement would be received with satisfaction. He presumed that in due course opportunity would be given the House for discussion.
The Prime Minister replied: “We are in active consultation with all of the parties concerned, both in Palestine and those who are available for conferences here, and no time will be lost in amplifying the statement I have made to-day.”
Mr Lloyd George associated himself with what Mr Baldwin had said.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 81, 5 April 1930, Page 9
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