Wedgwood Raps Commission’s Report As “amazingly Foolish”

Following a two hour visit by the Arab delegation now in London, with Prime Minister Mac-Donald and Lord Passfield, the Arab deputation issued a statement saying “Both parties were very pleased to meet one another and to have a general chat on the situation. We cannot issue any statement about the actual proceedings because it was purely a general meeting and it is probable that more meetings will follow.” The Arab delegation is expected to issue a statement tomorrow and to receive the press.

In the meantime, Col. Josiah Wedgwood, Pro-Zionist M. P., issued a statement in which he described the In##iry Commission Report as “amazingly #oolish.” Col. Wedgwood who is the author of “The Seventh Dominion, a book in which he advocates making Palestine a dominion of the British Empire, declares that the report “will lead the Mufti and the Arab Nationalists to imagine that they have far more support in England than they actually have. It will create Jewish exaspe##tion and annoyance with England all over the world, encouraging all tho#e forces of disorder in Palestine in the belief, which they expressed pret## freely during the trouble, that the government is on their side and they may even try it again.

“In addition it injures our prestig#. It condones disarming of the Jews by police just when they were massacred by the natives and apparently approves the humiliating supplication which was made to the Mufti by British official. I hope that the working of the Man date will be reviewed by the British government after consultation with people more experienced in Colonia and Oriental matters.”