PALESTINE MANDATE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 253, 6 August 1937, Page 5

PALESTINE MANDATE.

BRITAIN DOES HER BEST. ASSURANCE TO THE LEAGUE. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.55 a-.m.) GENEVA, August 5. Assurances that Britain had done her best under the Palestine mandate, which had proved unworkable, was given by Mr W. Ormsby Gore, who later left for London. He will not return to Geneva until he is needed. PLAN NOT ACCEPTABLE. ZIONIST CONGRESS ATTITUDE. ZURICH, August 4. The present plan regarding Palestine is not acceptable, declared Dr. Chaim Weizmann (President of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland, and President of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem) at the Zionist Congress, in announcing that a resolution would be introduced empowering the executive to negotiate with the British Government only provided the project enabled the Jews in Palestine to live their own independent national lives and helped to solve Jewish problems in different countries. IRAQ OPPOSES PARTITION. GENEVA, August 5. The Iraq Government has sent a note to the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations emphatically protesting against the proposals of.the Royal Commission for the partition of Palestine. The note describes the partition proposal as an injustice to the Arabs which Iraq could not view without alarm. It adds that the proposals are not compatible; with the integrad independence of Palestine and hold out no! hope of a permanent settlement. “Such a hope depends on the recognition of an integral independent Palestine in which the Jews accept once and for all the position of a minority,” the note adds.