London, July 1.
A slashing attack on the Report of the Royal Commission on Palestine (vas made by Mr. Lloyd George to-day in an article in the "Sunday Express."
The Report was described as a "lamentable admission that Great Britain, owing to the feebleness, vacillation and pusillanimity of her administrators, failed to carry out a great mission."
The Zionists, to whom a national home had been promised, the article said, would now have to be satisfied with a mutilated Canaan without Zion, Bethlehem or Judea.
Mr. Lloyd George paid tribute to the Jewish settlements which had not only prospered among themselves, but diffused" prosperity throughout Canaan.
Trade, he said, had increased and the wages of Arab labourers had been trebled, while their health had been improved by the elimination of malaria. Mr. Lloyd George declared that the Jews had poured more than £77,000,000 capital into a land impoverished for centuries by Arab and Turkish neglect, inefficiency and corruption.
Even if partition was inevitable, ihe division proposed in the Report of the Palestine Commission was unintelligent, he said. Out of the British costly war-time effort, the article continued, the Arabs got freedom over a territory much more extensive than that ruled over by the imposing empire of the Assyrian kings.
Finally, Mr. Lloyd George scouted the suggestion that two races, lange nages and religions could not live in amity in the same country. He cited India where the Congress and Imperialist parties alike accepted the thesis that the Aryan, Semite, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist and Christian lived together and shared the government as one great community.
In conclusion, he also cited the case of South Africa as well as Canada where the Briton, Frenchman, Protestant and Catholic lived side by side and jointly the governed country.—Reuter.
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