New York, May 21.
A huge pro-Zionis demonstration and meeting was held here today, when several leading personalities made speeches of appeal to Britain to renounce the decisions set forth in last Wednesday's White Paper on Palestine.—Havas.
London, May 22.
Initiating the promised debate on the Government's Palestine policy in the House of Commons today, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, stated that the Government wished it was possible to present its policy under different circumstances.
When the House last debated the Palestine question, Mr. MacDonald went on, it was hoped that, despite bitter years of strife, there was still a possibility of some understanding between Arabs and Jews regarding the future. These hopes, however, had been dashed, so that the Government had come out with its own policy. This presented the most grave head—and heart-searching problem.
Largely on the strength of a promise made to the Arabs and the Jews by His Majesty's Government, each had played a certain part in the Great War. Each took certain risks for the Allied cause. This question, then, was a matter of honour. The good name of Great Britain was involved.
In some quarters during the last few days, the Government had been charged with breaking its promises. The Government confidently repudiate ed that charge.
"No doubt," he declared, "physically we could force on the Arabs in Palestine any kind of Jewish home. But we could not do that with any moral justification. We must keep our promises to the Jews, but wei must also keep faith with the Arab world."—Reuter.
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