Two British church papers, the Church of England Newspaper and the Catholic Herald, were on record today in support of the Palestine land act.
The Church of England organ asserts that the act, under which Jewish land purchased is restricted, constitutes safeguards which would not unduly restrict the Jewish national home or prevent its legitimate expansion. The Catholic Herald fully approves the restrictions, charging critics with forming part of “a conspiracy to support Jewish claims in any part of the world about any matter, not caring about their injustice.”
Other weekly papers commenting on the land act include Time and Tide, which accepts it only on the grounds of expediency and expresses the hope that it will be replaced by new arrangements, and the New Leader, organ of the Independent Labor Party, which denounces it as harmful to both Arabs and Jews and serving only imperial interests.
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