British Government Opposed to Mandates Commission Demands

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

The government of Great Britain as the mandatory power for Palestine and Mesopotamia is opposed to the proposals made by the Permanent Mandates Commission which caused the recent controversy between the mandatory powers and the Commission. This was learned today when the secretariat of the League of Nations published the text of a note from the British Foreign Office on the subject. The foreign office expresses itself as being opposed to the submission of the new questionaire to the mandatory powers and to giving the Permanent Mandates Commission the right to hear petitioners from the mandated territories, as is urged by the Commission. These measures, the note declares, are dangerous and furthermore will not accomplish anything. The British government, on the basis of its colonial experience, has reason to believe that written petitions and shorter questionaires will do.