The Jews, on the other hand, will secure a national home in the fullest sense, thus attaining the primary Objective of Zionism and ceasing, at last, to live a "minority. lif The British Government in a Memorandum, says it proposes to take the necessary steps, in view of its obligations under the Covenant of the League of Nations and other international instruments, to obtain freedom to give effect to the scheme of partition to which, it hopes, the communities concerned will give an effective measure of consent.
Despite many discouraging experiences, says the Memorandum, the British Government has done its utmost to encourage ce-operation. between the Arabs and Jews on the assumption that, in time, the two nations would adjust their national aspirations and render possible a single commonwealth under a unitary government.
The British Governntent, however, has been driven to the conclusion that there is an irreconcilable conflict of aspirations which cannot be satisfied under the present mandate.
The Government concurs in the (Continued on page 14)
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