Partition Proposal First to be Submitted to League Mandates Bod)
Government Attitude Defined London, July to the partition of Palestine House of Commons has di Ilovse adopted a motion, with t dissentients, that the proposals ce declaration of Government policy brought before the League of ledded not to commit itself yet After a lengthy debate, the hree Independent Labour Party tained in the White Paper (the relating to Palestine should be tions to enable the Government, after adequate enquiry, to present ament with-a definite scheme, tal into full account all the recommendations in the White Paper he debate, before a crowded] elements of the problem in Pal me House, was initiated by the Colonial unless you recognize there is the Secretary, Mr. William Ormsby-Gore, keenes Jewish nationalism and. who introduced a motion approval of the House for ing the|again, vivid Arab- nationalism. The the Brit-trouble in Palestine is political and ish proposals regarding Palestine, and it was wound up for.the Government by Lord Winterton, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaste:
our Party's attitude was stated in a amendment proposing a close examination of the proposals by a joint select committee before Parliament should be committed.
Mr. Ormsby-Gore began by paying a tribute to the Report as not only 3 great literary work but as a final statement of historical truth.
He warned members of the House io weigh their words as the debate not economic. It is political and nothing else Nationalism, he proceeded, was the force of owing power everywhere in the world to-day ud it was natural that Arab nationalism should have been stimulated by the Franco-Syrian Treaty, while the fires of anti-Semitic persecution, rising again. had transformed the Jewish vision of Palestine from a cultural centre into a ref
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