The Archive · 1939

in Palestine

The Balfour Declaration had made promise to Jews and an assurance non-Jewish communities, No just solution wss possible which did no: take heed of these two sets of All Settlements, Concessions Called 'Out of Date'

(Continued from page 7) obligations, people, engaged in the me controversy, adopted a pro-pro-Arab standpoint, and estimated or ignored the claims of the other party t way lay injustice and breach man of Tientsin was voted by the Cabinet today at a meeting at the official residence of the Premie Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma.

The Cabinet was united in the opinion that the authorities should "go forward unhesitatingly to achieve what they believed to be right. All the Ministers except Marquis Koichi Kido, Minister of the Interior, were present at the session, Lieut-Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, War Minister, announced that the Japanese authorities at Tientsin were taking appropriate measures with "care. ful deliberation and strong determination."

Mr, Hachiro Arita, Foreign Minis ter, told the Cabinet that he had replied to a British note in connection with the Tientsin incident. The note expressed regret over the Japanese action and asked for an explanation.

Mr. Arita replied that he had not yet received an official report from Tientsin, he told the Cabinet. He expressed the hope that the British authorities would consider their attitude well and ce-operate in seeking solution of the issue by recognizing realities; The incident should be handled locally, he said.

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