Having recalled the two sets of obligations, namely, the establishment of a national home and the avoidance of anything prejudicial to the civil and religious rights existing in non-Jewish communities, Mr. Mac naid said the term "national home" was somewhat ambiguous.
It was regarded, he continued, as a definite possibility by some leading statesmen like President Wilson and General Smuts, His Majesty's Government accepted that, and the possibility of Palestine becoming a Jewish state was not precluded. Yet the Balfour Declaration and the mandate did not employ the term 'Jewish state' but 'Jewish national home,' a term which lacked predfinideliberately used because statesmen situated in the middle of Armageddon, and even statesmen thered later at Versailles and Geneva, in attempting to create a new world, could not foretell with confident results, which would follow from the Balfour Declaration and the mandate.—Reuter.
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