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NOVEMBE

1938.

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BRILLIANT SPEECH ON PALESTINE PROBLEM

Mr. MacDonald Outlines Issues To Be Met

Case Of Arabs As Well As Jews Must Be Studied

London, To-day.

and fertilising impulse of the years. The Arabs could not say Jews."-Reuter.

PEEL REPORT

the Jews were driving them out of their country, Had no single Jew come into Palestine after 1918, he Our troops can restore order believed that Arab population to- they cannot restore peace. Govern-day would still have been round ment has got to do that," said Mr. about 600,000. It was because the Macdonald, during the debate. Jews had come, bringing modern The problem of Palestine was health services and other advan- stated brilliantly in the report oftages that Arab the Peel commission. First of all who would have been dead were men and women

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The real problem of Palestine is not a military but there were the Jews. Nearly 2,000 alive to-day and Arab children who

a political problem, declared the Dominions and tine. Since then they had been grown strong.

years ago their home was Pales- would never have been born have Colonial Secretary, Mr. Malcolm Macdonald, in dispersed and scattered over the AND ARAB FEARS the House of Commons yesterday.

face of the earth but during the It was not merely the Jews who last 20 years many of them had had benefited by the Balfour de- He added that a few weeks ago there was an exam-been hastening back to Palestine claration. He knew the Arabs ple of the way in which British troops can, with under the terms of the mandate feared loss of freedom and domina-

went on. "We cannot put the Jews Since 1922 more than 250,000 under the domination of the Arabs settled there. Their achievement remove that Arab fear that they

perfect humanity, conduct a delicate military to Britain.

entrusted by more than 50 nations tion by the Jews if the process

operation among the civilian population. He did not think anyone could justly say that dur-Jews had entered Palestine and in Palestine but also unless we can ing the last twenty years Britain had not been had been remarkable. They had are going to be put under the fulfilling her obligation to facilitate the immi-turned Randdunes into orange domination of Jews we shall have gration of Jews to Palestine.

groves. They had pushed ever for-to face a hostile people over great ward into the wasteland frontier of area and we shall have to keep a In conclusion, he said the Bri-cultivation and settlement. They great part of our army in Palestine

had created a new city housing to- tish Government would enter the London discussions bound by its day 140,000 souls where there was

only bare seashore. Their achievement had been re-obligations under the mandate markable. (Cheers).

Since 1922, more than a quarter of a million Jews had entered Pa- lestine.

Under the lash of persecution in central Europe their return to their 'old homeland had been multiplied a hundredfold.· ·.

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"The tragedy of a people who have no country has never been so deep as it is these weeks.

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Jews and Arabs and by its duty to Parliament and to the other mem bers of the League of Nations and to the United States. Reuter.

LABOUR VIEWPOINT

London, To-day. come when

we

The time had really ought to have some reason able idea of what policy the Gov- ernment has as regards Palestine,

indefinitely.

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The Arabs and Jews have both got to make concessions to one an- BY RIGHT

other. If they would only be will- Jews were in Palestine, not on ing to do that, peace and prosperity sufferance but by right and to-day would return to both people in under the last of the persecution Palestine. The Government in Central Europe their eagerness prepared to make a supreme effort to return to their own homeland to achieve that understanding.

that Palestine should be home for years ago when Dr. Weizmann, on has been multiplied a hundredfold.

HISTORIC MEETING But we have made no promisë He recalled an incident twenty "I hope we are not going to allow

everyone who is seeking to escape behalf of the Zionist Organisation, our horror at the plight into which declared Mr. Herbert Morrison from the immense calamity of re-crossed the Jordan and met Emir these people have been thrown to (Labour) in the House of Commons cent weeks and even if there were Feisul with whom after warp our cool and just judgment yesterday...

no other population, Palestine with months he signed of the difficult problem of Pales-

He did not criticise the calling its rather meagre soil could not in about Palestine. That was a rela- tine." (Cheers).

of a conference in London. He did fact support more than fraction of tionship towards which they want- FAR WIDER FIELD not think that anybody na exclu- those Jews who may wish to escape ed to move back. "When we promised to facilitate sively optimistic about the result

from Europe. establishment of a national home but everybody in the House. hoped

He hoped it would be possible to ARAB GAINS

start discussions in London withîn for Jews in Palestine we never an- the conference would lead to a

Proceeding, Mr. Macdonald re- the next few weeks if not before ticipated this fierce persecution in solution of the problem, and every-ferred to the growth of the Arab Christmas at latest at the begin- Europe.

body concerned should make their population now 990,000, and estim-ning of January. "The problem of refugees from contribution to an amicable settle ated to reach 1,500,000 in twenty less. Central Europe cannot be settled ment.

in Palestine." (Cheers).

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Mr. Morrison urged that a much

"It has got to be settled over a greater number of Jews should be far wider field than that.

permitted to go to Palestine, es-

"The Government announced a pecially 10,000 children, for whom short time ago what the next de- finite step in its Palestine policy would be, and that is the policy of

discussions with Arabs and Jews

the Jews in Palestine were pre- pared to accept responsibility.

LIBERAL VIEW

some

{ agreement

British Wire-

Herr Hitler's Talk With Mr. Pirow

Berlin, To-day.

Sir Archibald Sinclair (Liberal) A statement on Hitler's talks with Mr. Pirow, South African Defence Minister, and King Carol of Rumania, was issued yesterday.

in London, and we are going to said that our main preoccupation abide by that, policy.”

ARAB AND BALFOUR

must be the welfare and prosperity of the whole of Palestine, and that

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CHURCHILL PROPOSAL

statement, which comes from well-informed German circles, says that Mr. Pirow's visit, which was "of an entirely private character in the course of Mr. Pirow's European tour of in- formation."

Mr. Macdonald mentioned that was bound up with successful con- The the Arabs were not consulted when tinuation of the great experiment the Balfour Declaration was made of the Jewish national home. nor when the mandate was framed. He suggested that the United

The Arabs watched with occa-States and the League of Nations! sional angry protests this peace should be represented by observers ful invasion of an alien people. at the Palestine conference if the

"They have watched them buy-mandate is to be discussed. ing up their lands. They have wat-Router.

It gave Herr Hitler and Mr. ched their settlements growing

Pirow an opportunity for extensive further over the countryside and

discussion of a number, of- general Mr. Winston Churchill suggest-problems including relations be- they have been compelled to re-ed that a ten-year plan for Pales- tween Germany and Britain. cognise the superior energy, skil tine be enforced with the consent and wealth of that wonderful of all parties' if possible with "re-conversations with King Carol

The statement adds that Hitler people, and the Arabs are afraid. solute conviction and use of all our covered a number of problems con- "If we are ever to have under-strength to make it successful." cerning Central and South-Easters standing of this problem we have He explained that the plan would Europe, especially relations be got to be able to put ourselves not roughly mean fixing immigration tween Germany and Rumania. only, in the shoes of the Jews but of Jews to Palestine for ten years. The conversations is said to also the shoes of the Arabe." at a certain figure which at the end have touched on not only political - (Cheers).

of that period would not have de- but also economic and cultural PATRIOTIC IF MISGUIDED cisively altered the balance of the subjects. → Reuter. Doaling with Arab agitation and population between Arabs and terrorism, Mr. Macdonald said they Jews. ought to recognise that

Rome, To-day. in Jewish immigration should not Mr. Pirow, South African De

GOING TO, ROME

the Palestine Arab moyŽOVINKY WARNA te less in any “given period: than fence · Minister,・arrives here on

moved by patriotism, however, the growth of the Arab population, Sunday evening to stay until Mon- wrong and misguided they might which Mr. Churchill declared day night as guest of the Italian be.

"aroše largely from the animating Government. Reuter:

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