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Commons Debates Disturbance Costs

February 26, 1930
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Colonization Association which he said sent 15,000 Jews to Palestine and cultivated the land, Rothschild thanked the British government for the rapidity of its decision in dealing with the disturbances. “If the government hadn’t sent troops to Palestine many more lives would have been lost. The people of Palestine and of Great Britain are grateful to the government for its action.”

Leopold S. Amery said that “however they might differ about the Balfour Declaration all would agree that no British government could allow its settled policy to be upset by mob violence or a population settled in the country under an international mandate to be persecuted by another section of the population.”

Replying to the various speakers, Shiels said that the “government must continue to insure the protection of all subjects of a country where it is responsible for the preservation of law and order. What the government wants in respect to Palestine is operating forces that would make a vote of this kind unnecessary in the future.” The vote was given.

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