LEAGUE
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 18, 1939
CRITICS
OF
WHITE PAPER POLICY
British Comments In Reply Sent To M. Avenol
SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES
TAKE EXCEPTION
London, To-day.
CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS of the Permanent Mandates Commission on the British White Paper on Palestine and the United Kingdom's comments in reply are now published. "The White Paper Policy (declares the Commission unani- mously in its report, which will be submitted to the League Council) does not accord with the interpreta- tion which the Commission, in agreement with the Mandatory Power and the League Council, has always placed upon the Palestine mandate."
The Commission, however, is not in agreement whether the mandate might not perhaps be open to a new interpre- tation which, while still respecting its main principles, would be sufficiently flexible for the White Paper Po- licy not to appear at variance with it.
COL. SPEAR
TO BE PUT ON TRIAL
Pelping, To-day.
The Japanese military spokes- man said that he was unaware of the basis for Gorman news agenoy. reports from London that Colonel Spear, British military attache in China detained by the Japanese, was likely to be releas- .ed shortly.
He added that the date of Spear's trial was not yet fixed. but was expected to be held shortly.-Reuter.
years
Jewish immigration after five dependant on Arab acquiescence; the
JAPANESE APOLOGY FOR SLAP
NEW YORK, TO-DAY.
FOR A BOX ON THE EARS THAT A JAPANESE SOLDIER RECENTLY GAVE A YOUNG AMERICAN WO- MAN, WHICH HAS BEEN REPORT- ED AND DISCUSSED EXTENSIVELY SINCE THEN IN THE AMERICAN PRESS AS THE "TIENTSIN - IN- CIDENT," THE JAPANESE
TENDERED BASSY HAVE APOLOGY.
EM- AN
The Japanese authorities have at the same time given assurances that a thorough enquiry will be made.
The apology was announced by Mr. of land Sumner Welles, Under-Secretary. prohibition and regulation of transfers; and the question of the fu-State, yesterday and was conveyed to ture constitution which the four think Washington by the U. S. Consul Involves the political subordination of Peiping-Trans-Ocean. the Jewish national home to an Arab majority.
The Government maintains with re- White gard to immigration that the Paper of 1922 meant only that im-
It did sorptive capacity of Palestine.
to not exclude, and never intended exclude, the possibility of Immigra tion falling below that level owing to other relevant considerations.
in
On Wednesday, the Japanese spokes- :: map at Peiping denied all knowledge of the case. and suggested that "Com- the anti-British- munists are using campaign for political purposes
Four members felt unable to state were unoccupied, "for some reason or migration should not exceed the ab-drag America into the dispute," that the policý conformed with the other."
any con- Mandate and considered trary conclusion was ruled out by the -very terms of the Mandate and the fundamental intentions of the authors.
The other three members con- sidered that existing circumstances justify the White Paper Policy If the Council did not oppose it.
me-
U.. K. MEMORANDUM
its The United Kingdom in morandum on August 5 to M. Joseph Avenol, Secretary-General of the Lea- gue of Nations, commenting on the foregoing observations, notes that four places on the Commission of eleven
OFF THE RECORD
"The Three Bares"
ED REED
It is pointed out that the four mentioned in the Commission's observations were impelled to dis- regard the political background which was freely discussed dur Ing the proceedings.
The Mandatory Power could not do similary so, and the Council must have regard thereto.
PRINCIPAL-ARGUMENTS
the The Government replies that principal arguinents advanced were that the new policy conflicts with the Mandate.
These concern the decision to make
EQUAL WEIGHT
to
pay sincere tribute to the Government of the Mandatory power for the con- it sideration which on this occasion
in
The Council is reminded that the has once more shown to the League of Nations and for further proof of its Mandates Commission has incurred. the view that the Mandate's obliga-attachment to the League and it re- ttons with regard to two sections of cords its appreciation of the explan- ations which the Colonial Secretary the population are of equal weight.
its sessions made. personally at Referring to its difficulty in keep- June, and expresses its gratitude “for ing a just balance between its.com-
the inexhaustible patierice with which obligations, the British plementary Government decided to provide for he lent himself to long and arduous general powers in regard to the land exchanges or views which the Com- question, because it had been advised mission was privileged to have with
him." that the rights and positions of Arabs
The British Government incidental- on the land might be prejudiced by a failure to prohibit, or regulate landly takes up the curious statement in
By ED REED. sales.
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With regard to the constitution, it la pointed out that the White Paper definitely lays down cer- tain ruling principles to ensure that when the time comes the rights of both communities shall be safeguarded. The League Council bears the final responsibility-for the termination of the existing Mandate.
the Commission's observations the fact that the policy of the White Pa- the per was not in accordance with Interpretation of the Mandate accept- ed in the past forced itself upon notice of commission. According to this state- ment, the British Government had declared the Mandate unworkable The British Government in 1937. points out it made no such declaration in 1937.
What it said was that the mutually irreconcilable aspirations of Arabs and Jews in Palestine could not be satis- filed under the terms of the Mandate
· GOVERNMENT BY FORCE The Memorandum. «notifies its in- tention to invite the Council to give due weight to the general situation in Palestine, which the policy is design-as. it stood. ed to meet, and asks what would be the effect in Palestine if a policy were pursued without provisions regarding immigration and other important mat- ters?
It declares that an interminable period of Government by force would
engue,
It is stated that the four mem- bers of the Commission who held the view that the British White Paper was not in accordance with the Mandate were the Bolglan;) Swiss, Norweglan and Netherlands representativas, "while thè' Portus guess, French and British delò- gates took the opposify Vlaw.
FOR PARLIAMENT
The Spanish member was not pre- sent during the debate on Palestine, while the Italian, Japanese and Ger- man representatives had already re- signed.
IRRECONCILABLE
It was these aspirations of the Arabs and Jews alike for their own national governments which could not be reconciled without a revision, of and which led to the the Mandate proposal for grevirion, but "wetting up of two sovereign states has since been found impracticable and · His Majesty's Government have been un- able to envisage any other solution which would satisfy the separate- as- pirations of the two communities for sovereign independence.
The declarations of His Majesty's Government in command papers of November, 1938, and - May, 1939, in fact, mean that complete realisation of these aspirations must be abandoned by both Arabs and Jews. The polley set out in the
paper of May,
therefore, for vereign · Arab Jawiah state oz: anse part
| 1939, does not pre
the conceptio It lê trådsstödd that if the League state or at. Coumell rencias a decision involving, entrusted, wi any change in the Mandate, the posi- | of Palestine. tion will be submitted to the House This suggestion having been aban- of Commons. Reuter.
doned, His Majesty's Government are TRIBUTE TO MACDONALD
tive unable to suren, that the alter? British Wireless says that in sub- which they have how adopted con- mitting its observations to the Coun-flicts in principle with upy declaration“ ell, the Commission says it desires to in their statement of July, 1937.