Through an error in cable transmission, Leonard Stein, adviser to the Jewish Agency for Palestine, was incorrectly quoted in the dispatches of Jan. 2 as telling the Royal Commission in Jerusalem that the principle of absorptive capacity was inconsistent with the League of Nations mandate.
An account of the session, received by mail from Jerusalem, says in part:
“In regard to the absorptive capacity principle in immigration, he (Mr. Stein) was certain that it was not inconsistent with Article 6 of the Mandate, but on the contrary was a positive obligation under that article; that the word used was ‘to facilitate,’ which was more far-reaching than merely to ‘permit’ immigration, and that the rights and position of the non-Jews could not be exercised in respect of the absorptive capacity in such a way as to prevent the Jews from becoming a majority.”
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