London, Oct. 12.
Before any steps can be taken io find a political solution of the Palestine problem, the British Government will have to do everything in its power to suppress the disturbances which are going on at the present moment, declares "The Times" in leading article this morning.
No time must be lost, the paper Says, ice the prevailing anarchy in this British-mandated territory is due in the first place to the way in which ihe British Government has persistently put off the adoption of energelic measures of intervention.
Comparison is drawn between the conditions in the Near East and those which were obtained in Czechoslovakia, It is argued that Britain will have to apply the principle of self-determination to Palestine. nite apart from the question as Whether Palestine is to be divided into two states, cantonalized or organized in accordance with the federalist principle, only a close co-opera tion with France can bring about a settlement in the Near East.
A federal state made up of Syria, Lebanon, two Palestinian states—one Arab and one Jewish—and of Transjordania would give Syria and the Arabs the desired unity, "The Times" declares, e at the same time avoiding the Necessity of setting up small and independent states.—Trans-Ocean.
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