HOPE FOR PALESTINE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 August 1938, Page 5

HOPE FOR PALESTINE

MR MALCOLM MACDONALD’S REVIEW FAITH IN ULTIMATE EFFECTS ON CONCENTRATION. OUTLINE OF BRITISH POLICY. (British Official Wireless.) (Recd This Day, 10.5 a.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 12. The Colonial Secretary, Mr Malcolm MacDonald, discussing his Palestine visit in a broadcast, said Britain had accepted the partition policy recommended by the recent Royal Commission as the best and most hopeful solution, but final decisions could not be taken until the technical commission at present inquiring into the details of partition had finished its labours, which would still take several weeks. After that decisions must be reached with the least possible delay. The authorities meantime hqd the hard task of restoring order, Mr MacDonald continued. Britain would administer its trust on the basis ’of justice between the Jews, who were building at long last their national home, and the Arabs, whose title in the land of their birth was indisputable. Sometimes powers of conciliation appeared puny. They seemed to be easily overthrown b£ that violence and hate which could also be let loose. But there was a spirit that brooded over Palestine, and with God’s help, peace would be restored tin the Holy Land.