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JEWS IN PALESTINE
DEFIANT
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The good name of Great Britain was Involved.
people of Palestine should be subject to another. This was stated by the sume Government of which Mr Balfour was Foreign Secretary, so that there could have been no mis- understanding.
OBITUARY
Fleet Mail Officer On H.M.S. Tamar
Surely, declared Mr. MacDonald, Į The obligations contracted to-hese assurances meant that a Jewish; The death occurred at the Naval wards the Jews and Arabs during national home in Palestine did not Hospital yesterday of Mr. Alfred the war were debis of honour mean a.Jewish State against the William Matthews, Warrant Master- which could not be paid in counter-wishes of the Arab population, Mr. at-Arms of i.M.S. Tamar and Fleet foll coinage.
MacDonald claimed that the Govern- Mail Officer.
In some quarters during the last meat was acting absolutely consist- The late Mr. Matthews, who was few days, the Government had been ently with the pledges made to the 43 years of age, had been in the charged with breaking its promises.Jews and the Arabs.
Navy for 20 years and was promo- The Government confidently pudiated that.
ted to Warrant Officer in 1930. He had been in the Colony for only two months.
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Referring to immigration, of which Mr. MacDonald then sympathe-Mr. MacDonald said the Government tically dealt with the Jewish claints, was also charged with a breach of
A bachelor, he is survived by his POPE PIUS XII" and afterwards turned to the Arab promise, the Colonial Secretary said
mother, who is in Portsmouth, and
declared: "No doubt was true that the Government sald
Full Naval honours were necord- we could force on the 1922 that Immigration should not Arabs In Palestine any kind of excced the economie absorptive at the funeral which took place Jewish national home, but we could capacity of the country, but the afternoon. Rev. D. V. Edwards ofl- In the Protestant Cemetery in the not do that with any moral justiflen-Government could not accept these elated, and about 200 men, tion. We must keep our promises to declarations as meaning that they centing every unit of the Fleet, were the Jews, but we must niso keep were bound for all time, and in all present, under the charge of Lieut.
circumstances, to maintain that strict, L. Boddy, principle,
without qualification. The Royal Marines Band Under that principle. the Jewish population grew from 80,000 in 1922 among those present were
H.M.S. Kent was in attendance, and 450,000 to-day.
Comdr. W. P. McCarthy, Warrant Officers Cooper, Greenwood, Hobbs, Deacon, Webber, Duffy, Christopher, Wex- C. Dicken was represented by His harn and Foley. Commodore E. B. Fing Lleutenant.
Following the service, a fring party from. H.MS. Falcon and
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Promise To Jows
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After referring to the promise to the Jewish people, Mr. MacDonald,to mentioned the Balfour letters of 1017 which declared that the "Government Contrary To Mandate must use their utmost endeavours to sce established a national home for Summing up. Mr. MacDonald said the Jews in Palestine."
it would be contrary to the mandate It
sometimes
been suggested, | if Britain did not begin to work now said Mr. MacDonald, that that pro- towards a self-governing institution mise meunt definitely that Palestine in Palestine. When it came to the HMS. Gannet fired three volleys should become Jewish State. constitution, the framing work would over the grave after which a bugler Certainly, the possibilty of a Jewish be a rival to that of the framers of from HMS. Kent sounded The State was not excluded. It was far the Indian constitution, but because Last Post" and "Revellle." from excluded, because Mr. Llyod it was difficult, they must not aban- George, who, was Premier in 1917 don It.
Wreaths were sent by Commo- | assured us of that,
dore. Hongkong Officers and men of Nevertheless, the authors of the The whole spirit of these arrange-H.M. Ships of China Station; Com- Balfour Declaration and mandate did ments was that the interests of the HMS. Tamar; Commodore, Omeers
missioned
Warrant Ofcers, not say "Jewish State", but they minority and the majority in used a more indefinite expression. Palestine should be adequately and Ship's Company, H.M.S. Tamar; They recognised that Jewish settle-secured, and they should be satened and Commissioned and Warrant Ofl- ment in Palestine on a great scale that they were adequately secured be LORD MERRIVALE DIES AFTER
cera, H.M.S. Medway. was an experiment the extent of fore completely surrendering manda- which must depend upon certain in- lory control of the country. Britain calculable factors. So deliberately would be satisfied that in the treaty:
ня 38
and
ELEVEN THOUSAND CASES
London, May 22. Lord Merrivale, the great divorce
they chose the phrase "National with Palestine, there was provision Judge, died to day. Between 1911 Heine", which could mean a Jewish for maintaining milltary air forces State in Palestine, but which also sufficient to secure our interests, the mid 1933 he tried more than 11,000 might mean something very much use of military facilities such
divorce cases,-Reuter Bulletin. ports and aerodromes, appropriate who became a judge and 1st Baron Henry Edward Dulce, a journalist consultation on military matters, Merrivale, was born in Devonshire in case of 1855. After some time on the staff and mutual assistance in trouble.
less.
Not An Empty Land And when the Balfour Declaration
was made, It was said that the de claration's purpose was to give a peoplo-who had-no-country a country which had no people. He wished the
phrase had been as true as it was
picturesque.
Opposition Amendment. Mr. Tom Williams, Opposition Labour, moved an omelal Opposition He wished Palestine was an empty ment proposals to be inconsistent in amendment, declaring the Govern- land, so that its bounds were the only letter and spirit with the mandate, limit set to the remarkable creative not calculated to secure the peace work of a devoted people who were ful and prosperous building a national home.
But Palestine was not empty. In 1918 there was a population of 000,- 000 Arabs, whose ancestors had been In undisturbed occupation for count- loss generations.
Specifying the promises to the Arabs, Mr. MacDonald declared that ho was not referring to the Mac Mahon correspondence, but to a later promise.
pf
Palestine, and that Parliament of
should
of a Plymouth paper he went to London and continued his journalistic work. He studied law and in 1885 was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn. the advocate, quickness of thought, He possessed all the best qualities of
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tangle of loose talk into an orderly array of cold facts. These gifts carried him forward rapidly, not be committed pending examinaRecorder of Plymouth and Devonport pecially in jury cases. Becoming tion of the proposals by the Mandates in 1897, he took silk" in 1890. A Commission of the League.
year later he was returned to Purlla-
Mr. Tom Williams argued that the ment as Conservative M.P. for Ply- White Paper destroyed the very basis mouth. of the Balfour Declaration, and he declared that clearly Mr. Balfour General to the Prince of Wales and In 1015 he became Attorney- visualised the possibility of a Jewish also did very valuable work in con- State.
nection with problems arising out of the war as chairman of the Royal Commission on Defence of the Realm Losses and other bodies. From 1910 to Lord 1818 he held the difficult office of
Wheels of History
"Mr. Winston Churchill,
When the Balfour Declaration was made, he said that it came as a shock to the Arab world, so thei British Government sent a messenger Milner and President Wilson support-Chief Secretary for Ireland. to Jeddah to explain to Sheriffed this view," declared Mr. Williams, Hussein that the British Government adding that
Knighted on resigning, he was the looked with favour upon the return scheme turned back the wheels of appointment rarely made direct from Government's made a Lord Justice of Appeal--an the Jews to Palestine, and that the history, had no Government was determined that no and was wholly inconsistent with the President of the Probate, Divorce moral foundation, the Bar. A year later he became obstacle should be placed in the way terms of the mandate. It sacrificed and Admiralty Courts. Not only did of this return, but that this would moderate Jews and Arabs to an ad- he undertake a vast amount of the be allowed only so far as it was com- ministrative, expediency. patible with the economic and poll-
work falling to that division of the He pleaded with the House not to High Court, but he was also noted lical freedom of the exising popula- accept Mr. MacDonald's reading of for the candour of his criticisms tion.
Parliament's obligations, which, if the
of divorce laws accepted, would once more forfelt "manoeuvres" adopted to take ad- and of the the conadence, not only of this coun- vantage of them. He was made fry, but all parts of the Empire and Daron Merrivale of Wlakhampton. In the United States.-Reuter.
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