Tomorrow’s issue of Great Britain and the East, well informed periodical which frequently mirrors the viewpoint of the Colonial Office, will editorially rebuke Poland for its demarches on the Palestine immigration question.
The editorial will state it is improbable that Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck, in his recent conversations with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, found the British Government very accommodating to his views on the Palestine issue.
Admitting that Poland has hitherto sent large numbers of Jewish immigrants to Palestine who have felt an inner urge to go to the Holy Land, the periodical will say:
“That gives them no prescriptive right to exacerbate the problem of the British Empire in its treatment of the Jewish question.”
The editorial will conclude that “Palestine is an imperial problem and must be treated from an imperial angle.”
Its publication is regarded as virtual confirmation of reports that Col. Beck, in his conversations with Capt. Eden, raised the question of Palestine immigration in relation to a Polish project to expatriate 80,000 Jews annually for ten years to the Holy Land and other countries.
It is understood that Col. Beck in his talks with Capt. Eden was careful to emphasize that the Polish Government was making no claims with regard to Palestine, but stressed the importance to Poland of uninterrupted emigration from that country to the Holy Land.
The purpose of raising the issue, it was stated, was to place on record the Polish interests in Palestine so that they might be jointly considered by the British Government with the Royal Commission’s report on the recent disorders.
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