The Mandates Commission, it will be recalled, expressed the opinion that the Arab outbreak was partly intended to resist the British policy in carrying cut the Mandate, It also expressed the opinion that} lack of insight on the part of the Administration and the absence of proper precautions, owing to inadequate forces, was largely responsible for the loss of many lives.
The Commission recognized the delicacy of the position but regretted that, on certain points, the] Mandatory Power had not yet succeeded in giving full effect to all] the provisions of the Mandate.
The report expressed the opinion that the fears of the Arabs regarding their economic future, aroused] by repeated sales of land to the Jews, would have been largely, allayed by a Government agricultural policy to increase the cultiva able area and to instruct Arabs in modern methods of cultivation, The League's Expectations The report further declared that the Mandatory Power must obviously return a categorical and definite refusal to all sections of the population which, by rebelling against the mandate, made the task of the Mandatory Power particularly difficult. It added that} the League of Nations was entitled to expect the inhabitants of Palestine to recognize, in fairness, the merits of the system, the inter national bases of which they were not in a position to challenge.
The observations of the British]
Government on the report said that} the Commission appeared disposed to acquit it of any charge of failure in. ite duties as regards the establishment of a regime of self government in Palestine and that, generally speaking, the Commission did not call into question the conceptions of the Mandatory Power as regards future poli
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