'Under-Secretary for the Colonies, Feplying for the Government, said it jas not weakness but strength to end Iattuation which had become intoler-{ble for the mandatory Power and menace to those whose Interests the mandatory Power had to' protect.
The mere application of armed force, tre sold, could never provide vtolutlon of the problem, and would nly widen the gulf which separated the' Arab and the Jew.
Having decided io. accept, the Report, the Government would tolerate ho action from either side in Palestine which would taslame once again. the fires of controversy. Representations {rom organizations. of Arabs. and Tews had. been received, and would ibe"considered, but the Government Woo not prepared, as at. present advised, to entertain any—large. substantial variation in the scheme of partition natess the Jews and Arabs, ina joint agreement, put forward alternative proposals which "com mended themselves to the Government.
By. bring the matter before the Permanent: Mandates Commission of the League of Nations this month, Lord Duferin declared, the Govern: tment hoped to obviate' any delay in the subsequent steps tobe taken.
Speaking of the proposed indepen. dent "Arab and Jewish states, Lord Dulferin declared that. the Government. would undertake to support {ny request they might make for admltsfon Into the League of Nations, There would, he added, be military conventions regarding a naval, mili-{ary'and air force for the security of paris, roads and railways and for the Drotestion of pipe lines and. other Iatlers as well as the effective Security of Palestine as a whole,
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