The insulting remarks against the Jews made by L. Elliot, State Attorney in Palestine, which have since been withdrawn, were raised in the House of Commons yesterday by Colonel Josiah Wedgwood.
Colonel Wedgwood asked Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Secretary of State for the Colonies, whether he had received any communication from the High Commissioner on this matter which has agitated the Jewish population.
The Colonial Minister at first denied any knowledge of the matter, presumably because Wedgwood referred to Elliot as Solicitor General of Palestine. Finally, however, Cunliffe-Lister said that the Junior Counsel in Palestine had made ill timed and ill judged remarks for which he had been properly reproved by the court.
A further investigation into the matter, if supplied with additional information, was promised by the Colonial Minister upon the request of the Jewish representative, Barnett Janner.
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