Only, he added, Great Britain had spent many millions of pounds in execution of the mandate, and had had large numbers of her civilian officers and soldiers killed in its defence. A nation which undertook the duty of fulfilling an international promise to Jews and Arabs, and which gained such benefits as might accrue to the mandatory, should properly bear the hardship and loss associated with the work.
That nation, he said, was also entitled to receive from others who
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