PEOPLE OF PALESTINE

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 106, 1 November 1933, Page 11

PEOPLE OF PALESTINE

POLICY UNDER MANDATE

LAW AND ORDER FIRST,

MINISTER'S PLAIN MESSAGE

(British Official Wireless.) (Received November 1, noon.)] '] RUGBY, October 31. ' In a wireless message on the occa« sion of the opening of the great new; harbour of Haifa the Colonial See retary, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, having referred to the great value such a harbour must be to Palestine, made an outspoken reference to the recent riots. ; He said: "Today's ceremony is overshadowed by the deplorable disturbances which have taken place. I 1 would speak very plainly to tha people of Palestine. Thirteen years ago Great Britain accepted the mandate of Palestine. The ; mandate carries with it a clear duty to Arabs and to Jews. That duty will be discharged fully and fairly without fear or favour. . There is under the mandate an obligation to facilitate the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.: But at the same time there is an; equally definite obligation to safe« guard the. rights of all the inhabi« tants of Palestine. Both obliga^ tions will be most carefully observed* It will be the constant aim of British' policy to foster and promote thet well-being of all Palestine. "Plans are now in hand, in which' the High Commissioner has had a! great. personal share, which will1 materially benefit all classes of the community. That work will go forward. But there is a paramount) duty to preserve law and' order. That duty, too, will be most thor« oughly discharged. I wish herd to repeat the tribute I have already] paid to all ranks of the police f os the fortitude with which they havei carried out their duty. Law and order, will be maintained throughout the land. Palestine is fortunate mi having at this time a High Commis* sioner devoted to its interests who! Every/man in Palestine knows in his heart is fair and just. He has ths complete confidence of his Majesty's1 Government, and I appeal to all men of goodwill to give him their loyal support and co-operation in his work for the common good of all."