Supreme Effort to Be Made to Exercise Mandate And Uphold Balfour Pledge; Commons Discussion London, Nov. 25.
TOADILY and si rely, the British Government's authority was being re-established throughout Palestine, declared Mr. Mal-comi MacDonald, Secretary of State for the Colonies and Dominions, in opening a debate on Palestine in the House of Commons yesterday.
"If we are ever to have an understanding and find a happy solution," he asserted, "we must put ourselves in the posi tion of not only the Jews but also of the Arabs" and "the British Government is prepared to make a supreme effort to achieve understanding, and hopes that discussions will start in London in the next few weeks."
Among those who spoke were Mr. H, S. Morrison, Labour member for South Hackney; Sir Archibald Sinclair, Leader of the Liberal Opposition, and Mr, Winston Churchill, London, Nov. 24.
Mr, Morrison said that the time had come when the House really ought to have some reasonable idea What the policy of the Governemnt was, He did not criticize the calling of the conference, and did not think that anybody was very optimistic bout the result, but everybody in the House hoped that the conference would lead 0 a solution of the prob-Tem and that everybody concerned would seek to make their contribu.
Uon to an amicable settlement.
He emphasized that it was very important, if a decision was reached, that the Government and Parliament should not be commited until the House of Commons had been con sulted.
Mr, Morrison expressed the hope that "the method used in Munich would not be repeated. They wanted to know whether the Government still adhered to a Jewish national home and the Balfour Declaration.
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