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are matters for consideration when the time arrives," from which the occupants of the Na- tional Home will doubtless derive great comfort. The Government cannot possibly guarantee that any "safeguards" in an, Arab State will be effective after the British have withdrawn. But more astonishing is the Govern- ment's statement that it is not in any way bound by the principle of "absorptive capacity." There is no doubt that the League Council has always thought the contrary. There is no doubt that the Brit-- ish Government itself thought. the contrary until quite recent-
A VIRTUAL DEFEAT, certainly up to the autumn of 1937. At that time it went to the Mandates Commission to ex-
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Lord Samuel,
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For a Government which plain that it wished to reduce critical debate can Jewish immigration to 12,000 a rely on a majority of about year. It did not pretend, as the 220 to secure only 89 is al-Government now pretends, that it most equal to a defeat and in-was entitled thus, to reduce im- dicates a grave lack of confidence migration, if it chose, as a mat- among its own supporters.ter of principle. It said that the Eighty-nine was the majority reduction was "purely an in- secured by the Government on terim measure." The Commis- the motion that the House of sion took note of it as "an ex- Commons approved of its new ceptional and provisional Palestine proposals, and besides sure," and even called attention the twenty supporters who to "this departure from the actually voted against the Gov-principle (of absorptive capacity) ernment as many as 110 must sanctioned by the League Coun- have deliberately abstained. cil." To confirm all, Mr. Eden,. Such a vote was not altogether then Foreign Secretary; told the surprising after the debate. Mr. League Council a little after that. MacDonald, the Colonial Secret-the reduction of immigration. tary, had not in his speech put was "a purely temporary mea-- any better face on the White (sure designed to meet temporary Paper. He put forward a series and exceptional circumstances." of denials. He denied that the In short, the Government's inter- Government, in bringing the pretation is much too new a dis-- Jewish National Home to acovery to be plausible. standstill and in putting it under the rule of Arabs with a two- to-one majority, would be break-speaks with detachment on this ing any pledge. He denied that question, said in the Lords that the Jews would be in any dan- the Government's proposals will Home.** ger of oppression if they, being "strangle the National
who described a minority, were subjected to the Mr. Churchill, Arabs. He denied that the Gov-them as "an act of repudiation,” ernment was in any way bound declared that "solemn to admit Jews according to the ments into which Britain had en- · "absorptive capacity" of the tered before the world were be- country. These contentions are ing set aside." It is possible threadbare, and they are so be- especially after the voting-that cause they have only recently the programme will never be car-- been devised to support the ried out, at least in full. abrupt reversal of this country's Jews will not co-operate because policy. The Government says it they will never accept the in- is breaking no pledge because ferior status of a minority, and Government would: neither the Balfour Declaration even this in 1917 nor the Mandate in 1922 hardly be able to commit the the Palestine final outrage of forcing spoke of converting into a Jewish State--and no one Jewish National Home against its has contended that they did. But will under the rule of Arabs neither in 1917
in whose only desire is to get rid 1922 would anyone have believed of the Jews altogether. Neverthe- that in twenty-two years Jews less, that is the threat which were to be stopped from enter-subject to Mr. MacDonald's brave: ing the National Home at all and "safeguards"-tha Government. to be visited with domination by holds out now to the Jews as its an Arab State. True, the Mandate way of fulfilling the obligations: did not promise to impose a Jew- which the British people has ac-..
the knowledged since 1917. ish Palestinian State on Arabs, but unquestionably the scheme will fail, defeated by its Jews, together with the people own injustice. The Government of this country and the rest of will then do well to turn again the world, would have been pro-to the possibilities of separating : foundly astonished if they had Arabs and Jews under been told that, in the meaning of other of the methods that the Mandate, we were to invite available. Lord Samuel, who re-.- the Jews to enter Palestine "as jects separation, urges that the of right and not on sufferance," Jews should be content to be 40 to encourage them to send their per cent. of the population and! people and their money, and that the Arabs should abate their then, when they had reached opposition. But is it not still nearly one-third of the popula-true, as the Peel Commission tion, to tell them that we pro- said, that the trouble is precise...... posed shortly ourselves in clearly that for the Arabs there are- out, leaving them
to
the mercy
too many Jews already? It still of the Arabs, terrorist and other. seems that separation of some sort must be the ultimate -solu- But, says Mr. MacDonald, the tion. The figures in the division Jews will not be "at the mercy should teach the Government how of" the Arabs because there will general is the dissatisfaction. be "safeguards" for them. It is with the present discreditable too late in the day for specious proposals, nor is that dissatis-- nothings of this kind. Sir Archi-faction likely to be less now that bald Sinclair asked what these the proposals have come under "safeguards" were to be. Mr. the keen dissecting knife of the MacDonald replied that "those Mandates Commission.
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