See Inquiry Commission’s Report As Providing Modus Vivendi for Palestine

The Palestine Inquiry Commission’s report goes a long way toward meeting the Arab claims and thereby creates a modus vivendi in Palestine, the “Morning Post” has learned. Regarding responsibility for the August disturbances, the evidence is said to be most conflicting but the Commission was compelled to inquire into the causes of racial antagonism which, according to the “Post,” was caused by the methods of administering the Balfour Declaration rather than by the Declaration rather than by the Declaration itself.

For this reason, the “Post’s” informant believes that the Colonial Office will be pressed to publish the minutes and evidence of the hearings as well as the report. It is also said that the report discusses the question of whether the administration had not proceeded in the direction of making Palestine a predominately Jewish state rather than a National Home for the Jews.

The “Post” says further, that the report seems to deprecate the proposal of Lord Balfour, Lloyd George and General Smuts that another commission be set up to investigate the whole working of the Palestine Mandate. In well-informed quarters it is believed that a definite policy of justice to Jews and Arabs alike has been formulated in Jerusalem for the preservation of peace in Palestine.