HIGHER JUSTICE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 187, 25 August 1937, Page 5

HIGHER JUSTICE

(British Official "Wireleas.)

-eague Admires British Work for Jews and Arabs COMMISSION'S REPORT

(Received 25, 12-30 p.m.) RUGBY, Ang. 24. The full reports of the permanent Mandates Commission of the League Council on the Royal Commission' s proposals for Palestime have now been sent to members of the Council, and a summary of the report has been made public. Referring to the mandatory Power ltself, the commision says : "The concern with jvhich it has for nearly 20 years sought to appease the antagonistic feelings prevailing in Palestine must awaken in any maii of goodwill a degree of admiration of _ this higher justice exercised in a world in which brutal violence aften stills the voice of humanity. "Let the Jews, who all too often and without justification show impatxence at the delay and hesitation which the mandatory Power hasi felt compelled to bring to the building up of their national home, ask themselves where there is any other nation, by which they have been so little persecuted and to which for generations past they owe so many benefits. . . . "Let the Arabs — whose opposition can be readily understood to what nevertheless is a measure of higher justice which cannot be carried out without sacrifice from their side — remember tho origin of their national emancipation. "Without British efforts certainly there would have been no Jewish national home, but also tliere would have been on the tlireshold of the 20th century no independont Arab State.'4