The Archive · 1936

Palestine Commission Personnel

London, July 20, The names of members of the Royal Commission to investigate conditions in Palestine were nounced in the House of~Commons to-day by Mr, William Ormsby-Gore, the Colonial Secretary. 'The Chairman of the Commission, he declared, would be Earl Peel, former Secretary. of State for India, and he would be supported by Sir Horace Rumbold, former, Hugh Commissioner and' Ambastador at Constantinople; Sir" (William) "Morris Carter, formerly Chief Justice Uganda Protectorate and" Pres dent of the Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa; Sir Laurie Hammond, Governor of Assim from 1927-82, and chairman of the Indian Delimitation Committee in 1038; Sir Harold Morris, President of the Industrial "Court Reginald Coupland, Belt Professor of Colonial History at Oxford and, in 1023, 0 member of the Royal Commission onthe Superior Civil Ser vices in India, The Commission, Mr, Ormsby. Gore informed the House, would not begin work in Palestine until order "been restored Reuter,

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