It is not enough for England to declare that she is not going to abandon the Palestine Mandate, but she must do all in her power to make a Palestinian nation, declares the “New Statesman” in an editorial in its current number. The “New Statesman,” founded by Sidney Webb, now Lord Passfield, the Colonial Minister, is known as an advocate of liberal and labor causes.
Discussing the recent joint letter by Lord Balfour Lloyd George and General Smuts in the “London Times,” calling for the appointment of an authoritative Palestine Commission to investigate the workings of the Mandate, the “New Statesman” asks whether the British government is alive to the situation and whether it is looking beyond a mere apportionment of the blame and the conclusion of some sort of a truce for the immediate future.
Unless the government is preparing plans for more comprehensive attempts at obtaining cooperation between the Arabs and Jews, on which the fate of the Palestine experiment hangs, there is a strong case for the proposed commission, declares the “New Statesman.”
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