IN PALESTINE

Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1930, Page 5

IN PALESTINE

HON WINSTON CHURCHILL

THE POSITION OUTLINED.

(United PrOse Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

(Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 2

Hon. Winston Churchill, author of the 1922 White Paper on Palestine, advises the taking of the Palestine dispute to the League of Nations and enumerates four milestones of British Policy towards Zionism in Palestine.

He states the first is the Balfour Declartion of 191?, a. practical measure in the interest of the allied cause. The Zionist movement throughout the world was actively pro-ally and exercised an appreciable influence on United States opinion. The seocnd is the acceptance in 1919 of the Palestine Mandate by Great Britain.

The third is Colonial Office despatches and correspondence of June 1922. This re-affirms the Balfour Declaration, and states that a Jewish National Home will be founded m Palestine, though the British Government does not contemplate the disappearance subordination of the Arab population language or culture.

The fourth is Lord Passfield’s White Paper. The question is whether this declaration departs from the exposition established in 1.922, The difference is largely one of emphasis. If we departed ( from our undertaking and regard the Zionist cause as a mere inconvenient incident of Colonial Office Administration in Palestine we are bound to return our mandate to the League and forego the strategic, moral and material advantages arising from British control, and association with the Holy Land.