jo, I say declared Mr. William Ormsby-Gore, the Colonial Secretary, in the House of Commons to-day when Mr. William Gallacher, Communist member for West Fife, asked if the Government was reconsidering its attitude towards the Arab Higher Committee in Palestine and adopt a different attitude for solving the problem.
"For a whole year," Mr, Ormsby-Gore added, "His Majesty's Government had exercised exemplary patience in the face of murder, outrage and rebellion, and we have come to the conclusion that forbearance had been mistaken for weakness.
"It is essential to restore law and order in the country if the lives of moderates—Arabs and Jews alike are to be saved" (cheers).
The action taken against the Arab Committee, the Colonial Secretary recalled, was the direct result of the recent campaign of murder and terrorism.
His Majesty's Government, he added, was fully satisfied that the activities of the Arab Committee had been prejudicial to the maintenance of public security and that its members must be regarded as morally responsible for those events, In reply to Mr. J. C. Wedgwood, Labour member of Newcastle-under-
Lyme, Lord Cranborne, Foreign Under-Secretary, stated that the British Government was not pressing the French to extradite the Grand Mufti, who fled from Jerusalem re-
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