The theory that ministers of the Labor government were unaware of the contents of the widely criticized British White Paper on Palestine before it was published was reiterated yesterday at a meeting of the Board of Jewish Deputies, an organization watching over all matters affecting the welfare of the British Jews.
“I know of two cabinet ministers who did not know of the White Paper till they read about it in the newspapers,” stated Nathan Laski, chairman of the Palestine committee of the Board, at the special meeting. Resolutions adopted at the meeting, in view of the Palestine debate in the House of Commons, reaffirmed the conviction that the White Paper was contrary to the spirit of the Palestine Mandate and was a breach of the pledges made by successive British governments to the Jewish people. The resolutions also welcomed the pronouncements against the White Paper made by British statesmen such as Stanley Baldwin, Lloyd George and General Jan Smuts.
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