Mandates Commission to Await Inquiry Report Before Discussing Palestine

Pending the report of the Commission of Inquiry the question of Palestine will not come up before the present session of the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations which was opened here today by Marquis Theodoli. A proposal that the session consider only the procedure which the discussion will take when Great Britain will submit her report was adopted. All material which Great Britain will submit to the League of Nations regarding the Palestine events is to be presented to the Mandates Commission in order that the question may be considered at its sixteenth session or at an extraordinary session which may be called.

The discussion in September at the session of the League of Nations Council, when Arthur Henderson spoke for Great Britain on the Palestine events, were very important from the point of view of the mandates system. Marquis Theodoli declared. The painful occurrences in Palestine, which deeply moved public opinion throughout the world, have certainly made an impression on all the members of the Commission who have for years been following with particular interest the development of this country, he said. “On behalf of the Commission I desire

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to express our consternation at the sad news from Palestine and deep sympathy for the victims and their families.

“The first step following these disturbances, the re-establishment of order by the Mandatory, has already been taken. The second step was to appoint a Commission of Inquiry. The deliberations of the Mandatory on the results of the inquiry and the decisions taken in consequence constitute a third phase. Finally, the whole documentation on this subject will be communicated to the League. The Commission, whose duty it is, under the covenant of the League of Nations, to advise the Council on all questions connected with the carrying out of the mandates, will receive this information in due course,” he declared.