London, July 21.
A great body of opinion in the Labour Party in both Houses of Parliament, do not^approve of the proposal for partitioning Palestine.
Mr. Morgan Jones, Labour member for the Caerphily division of Glamorganshire, will move in the House of Commons to-day that the Proposals of the Royal Commission be examined by a select committee be-{ore Parliament is committed. The Government is expected to refuse to accept, the proposal as it is unable to delay the submission of the scheme to the League of Nations.
The Report came under heavy fire in the House of Lords to-day during a debate arising from questions addressed by the Opposition Leader, Lord Snell, The Commissioners seemed to have arrived at the conclusion that Palestine would never be united until it was divided, declared Lord Snell in initiating the discussion.
In his judgment, the better and surest way lay in understanding and ce-operation between the two races. He complained that the Government had endorsed the Report before Parliament had had an opportunity to pronounce en it. On behalf of the Labour Party, Lord Snell condemned the partition proposals as inequitable and hazardous.
Lord Peel's Defence, Lord Peel, Chairman of the Royal Commission, was received with loud cheers on rising to speak.
He observed that the members 07 the Commission had all started on their task opposed to the idea of partition, and nad come reluctantly to adopt it.
He thought 4 had been a great achievement of the Palestine Government to have legislated and atministrated for two peoples so utterly different, and he contended that if the experiment had failed, they might fairly conclude that failure lay not in the efforts of the mandatory but in the intractable character and material with which it had to deal.
The race introduced into Palestine were determined not to remain a minority, Inevitably the Arab believed that either himself or his descendants would go down before the forces with which the Arabs were enable to cope.
It was not until after the most thorough and tremendous sifting and questioning, Lord Peel added, that the Commissioners moved slowly and reluctantly to the assumption that no mere change in mandate was enough.
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