Palestine High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope will be replaced by Sir John Anderson, a reputed “iron man,” because of the increasing prospects for a murder campaign in Palestine, the New York Times reported today from Jerusalem.
Sir Arthur, whose-five-year term has another four years to run, will receive a peerage and be appointed Governor of New South Wales, the Times correspondent said he had learned on reliable authority, while Sir John, former Governor of Bengal, will be sent to Jerusalem.
General Wauchope has been criticized by Jews and moderate Arabs for his vacillating policy, the Times said, and although a soldier his policy has been one of pacifism.
Sir John succeeded in ending the reign of terrorism and murder against Britons in Bengal. He escaped death several times when attacked by native terrorists.
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