William Gallacher, Communist member of Parliament, demanded in Commons tonight that British military forces be withdrawn from Palestine and that “the Arabs be given the right to their own country.”
The demand prompted James Maxton, a leader of the Independent Labor Party, to inquire sarcastically why the Communist Party had suddenly gone anti-Semitic.
William G. A. Ormsby-Gore, Colonial Secretary, replied that he could not say anything about Palestine’s future before the Royal Commission finished its report on its recent investigation in the Holy Land.
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