The long anticipated Parliamentary debate on Palestine which was due to begin tomorrow during the debate on the colonial vote will probably not take place because as Dr. Drummond Shiels, under-secretary for the Colonies, stated today in the House of Commons, the colonial vote would not give an opportunity to do full justice to the Palestine question.
Dr. Shiels said that if he was to deal with the Palestine question he wanted to have an opportunity of dealing with it fully and that an announcement in that respect would be made as soon as possible. Dr. Shiels’s statement was made during the brief cross-questioning which Commander Kenworthy initiated. The latter asked whether the Colonial Office was aware of the uneasiness among the Jewish population in many parts of the Empire and abroad at the suspension of immigration and whether a further statement would be made. To this Dr. Shiels said nothing further would be said until Sir John Simpson’s report was ready.
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