The British people have been kept in ignorance of the real reasons behind the outbreaks of terror in Palestine, Lord Strabolgi, Labor peer, charged last night in an attack on political censorship in the Middle East, which, he said, is “becoming a positive danger.”
“The Colonial Office,” Lord Strabolgi stated, “was at loggerheads with the Jewish population of Palestine, to the distress of Jews all over the world who are enemies of Hitler. Then came the terrible acts of violence, but the British people were kept in the dark about the real causes of the trouble, nor were they allowed to know the cause of the difficulties between the British and the United States Governments, although both Palestine and Greece have become bones of contention.”
The London press today publishes extensive quotes from the statement on Palestine made in Cairo yesterday by Sir James Grigg, new Minister of State for the Middle East. Some papers feature the assurance by the new minister that no final solution of the Palestine problem can be evolved without prior consultation with the United States.
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