Prime Minister Churchill will be asked in the House of Commons on Thursday if he will afford the members “an early opportunity to discuss the terrorist outrages in-and-emanating-from Palestine, and the measures to be taken for dealing with the situation, “it was announced here today.
The question will be put to Churchill by Lord Winterton. He will also ask that the British Government take action, under the existing Emergency Powers Act, against Abraham Abrahams, leader of the New Zionist Organization in London, for “untrue statements made by him which may do damage to Palestine in its disturbed condition.” In his statements made at a public meeting in London, Abrahams charged the Palestine Government with having an anti-Jewish bias and members of the Palestine police force with being former members of the anti-Semitic British Union of Fascists.
A demand that solution of the Palestine problem be postponed indefinitely, is voiced today in the Economist, influential British newspaper. The postponement is urged “because at present Zionists may capitalize on the humanitarian instincts of the world.” The paper adds that “a solution of the Palestine problem now would be interpreted as a surrender to violence, affording a fatal example for Palestinians of non-Jewish communities.”
U. S. GOVERNMENT PRESSURE FOR SOLUTION OF PALESTINE PROBLEM IS CITED
The Economist says that Great Britain is now exposed to two types of pressure from outside. One, the paper says, is coming from the United States Government “which invariably responds to Zionist influence,” and the other comes from Egypt where leaders of Arab countries are determined to protect the interests of the Palestine Arabs.
The paper reveals that Lord Moyne, the assassinated British Resident Minister for the Middle East, had prepared a proposal suggesting the inclusion of Palestine in a federation within a Great Syria. It emphasizes that the establishment of Palestine as a Jewish Commonwealth would be “incompatible with one of the freedoms for which the war was waged. ” The article also apposes the partitioning of Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states arguing that “this involves a welter of corridors enclaved within a land the size of Wales.”
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