PALESTINE TROUBLE.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18166, 3 November 1930, Page 5

PALESTINE TROUBLE.

MR CHURCHILL’S ADVICE. SUBMIT TO LEAGUE OF NATIONS. BRITISH POLICY OUTLINED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Nov. 3, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 2. Mr Winston Churchill, author of the 1922 White Paper on Palestine, advises taking the Palestine dispute to the League of Nations, and enumerates four milestones of British policy towards Zionism in Palestine. He states that the first is the Balfour declaration of 1917, a practical measure in the interest of the allied cause. The Zionist movement throughout the world was actively pro-ally, and exercised an appreciable influence on the United States opinion. The second is ' the acceptance in 1919 of the Palestine mandate by Great Britain. The third is the Colonial Office despatches and the correspondence of June, 1922. This re-affirms the Balfour declaration, and states that a Jewish national home will be founded in Palestine, though the British Government does not contemplate the disappearance or subordination of the Arab population, languages or culture. The fourth is Lord Passfleld’s White Paper. “ The question Is,” says Mr Churchill, “whether this declaration departs from the exposition established in 1922. The difference is largely one of emphasis. If we depart from the undertaking and regard the Zionist cause as a mere inconvenient incident of Colonial Office administration in Palestine, we are hound to return our mandate to the League and forego the strategic, moral and material advantages arising from British Control and association with the Holy Land.