These land regulations which the Opposition now opposed, he said, were part of the policy of that White Paper. They believed that these regulations would damage the interests of both Arabs and Jews.
The Secretary of States latest White Paper did not say that any Arabs were landless and dispossessed at present. Jews only sought to buy surplus land. The existing safeguards against the landless Arab problem were pretty strong.
Mr. Noel-Baker declared that Jews had not decreased the land available to Arabs but had notably increased it., He contended that Jewish activities had resulted in great benefit to Arabs, and argued that Mr. Mac-Donald's proposed course was deliberately violating British obligations and striking a blow at the great principle for which Britain was at wal Until Mr. MacDonald raised a storm a week ago by promulgating now regulations, Mr. Noel-Baker continued, Palestine had been forgotten. He had examined the status of the Permanent Mandates Commission, and discovered that unless it was accepted as a quasi-judicial body, whose findings on questions of interpretation were accepted, the whole thing made no sense.
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