UNDER THE PROPOSED PARTITION OF PALESTINE THE ARABS WILL GET MORE THAN 100 PER CENT OF WHAT BRITAIN PROMISED THEM AND THE JEWS LESS THAN 10 PER CENT OF WHAT WAS PLEDGED TO THEM, ACCORDING TO CYRIL ASQUITH, SON OF THE LATE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER.
IN A LETTER TO THE TIMES, ASQUITH DECLARES PALESTINE WAS NOT PROMISED TO THE ARABS, AS CONFIRMED BY SIR HENRY MACMAHON, FORMER BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR EGYPT, AND WILLIAM G.A.ORMSBY-GORE, COLONIAL SECRETARY.
THAT THE BALFOUR DECLARATION PROMISES THE ESTABLISHMENT IN THE FUTURE OF A JEWISH STATE IS RECOGNIZED BY THE ROYAL COMMISSION, THE LETTER SAYS, AND THIS CONSTRUCTION WAS PLACED ON THE DECLARATION BY DAVID LLOYD GEORGE, LORD CECIL, GEN. JAN C. SMUTS, SIR HERBERT SAMUEL, PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON AND THE AMERICAN NATION.
THE ONLY POSSIBLE CLASH IS ON THE QUESTION OF TRANSJORDAN, ASQUITH SAYS, SINCE THIS WAS PROMISED TO BOTH JEWS AND ARABS.
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