The Archive · 1938

Commons Assurance

London, Feb, 9.

Asked whether in order to allay anxiety at home and in Palestine he would assure the House that the Government fully adhered to the policy of partition declared last July in the White Paper and confirmed in September at Geneva, the Colonial Secretary, Mr, W. Ormsby-Gore, replied that His Majesty's Government had stated last July that they had reached the conclusion that the scheme, on the general lines recommended by the Palestine Royal Commission, represented the best and

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