Colonial Secretary MacDonald today presented the House of Commons with a bill for the Palestine disorders exceeding $15,000,000, including a grant-in-aid for the Palestine Government. He told Commons that the situation in the Holy Land had “improved slowly but surely in recent months.” Rebel activities, he said, had been reduced to a minimum, the main trouble now being individual sabotage and assassinations, which take long to suppress. He said the military were able to restore order but not peace, which was the task of the current Palestine conferences.
All parties in Commons supported a supplementary estimate of $72,000 for the expenses of the conferences. The House agreed not to debate the Palestine question now in order not to jeopardize what possibilities for success the parleys have.
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