League of Nations Unions Condemn Attempt to Change Palestine Mandate by Force

A resolution proposed by the British League of Nations Union welcoming Dr. Drummond Shiels statement of June 4 that all obligations of the Palestine Mandate are reconciliable and must be reconciled and condemning any attempt to obtain by violence changes in the Mandate policy or in the method of its administration was unanimously adopted by the 14th annual congress of the Federation of League of Nations unions meeting here. The resolution also recalled the Mandatory power’s obligation for the close settlement of the Jews on the land, including state and waste lands not required for public and appealed to the leaders of the Palestine communities and also to all nations to use every means in their power to improve the relations between the sections of Palestine’s population in order that the ideals of the Palestine Mandate might be realized.

Amadeo Gianini, the Italian delegate, abstained from voting on the resolution, maintaining that its tone was too strong. He suggested that the passages dealing with the past British obligations to the Jews be eliminated and the references to the complaints and condemnations be omitted. An amendment that he submitted to that effect was defeated.

The congress received a telegram from the Syrian-Palestine committee in Geneva saying that the resolution was unjust and harmful to the Palestine Arabs and “bears the marks of Jewish propaganda. In order to achieve the Jewish National Home in Palestine it will be necessary to transfer lands to the Jews which no resolution in the world will be able to carry into effect. No power in the world can rob Palestine from the Moslem and Christian Arabs after their living in the country for 1,400 years.”