The Archive · 1939

White Paper Policy Upheld

Mr. MacDonald, in a speech reaffirming the White Paper policy, said that perhaps nothing would do more io destroy a prospect of peace in Palestine than starting upon a policy and then completely reversing it or showing hesitancy, and, therefore, commencing another long period without any policy at all.

Mr. Duff-Cooper's policy, he added, would not produce peace, but would make the whole of the rest of the Arab world implacable enemies to the Jewish national home.

Mr. MacDonald said there was no policy ^wbieh would produce immediate peace in Palestine, but he believed that the Government's policy contained the basis upon which Britain May Suggest Peace Plan to Stop German Rearmament Suggestion Discussed in London; Large Loan for Transforming Reich Arms-Industríes Broached Arabs and Jews could ultimately settle side by side and find peace together.

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