The announcement of the British Palestine policy, Mr. MacDonald said, was the final act of a prolonged consideration of a stubborn problem, He outlined the successive attempts to solve the problem, culminating n an invitation to Jewish and Arab representatives to confer with the British Government in London, at hich no agreement was reached. While conforming to their obliga-us to Jews and Arabs under the mandate, the British Government, in their had been concerned to s far as possible, the uncertain! about future developments, which was one of the causes of the tragedy now being enacted
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