If the Mandate over Palestine is to be transferred to any other authority than Great Britain, the League of Nations could make no wiser move than to place the country under the control of a joint commission of Arabs and Jews, according to a suggestion made last night by Louis Lipsky, former president of the Zionist Organization of America, in an address delivered at the Washington Heights Y. M. H. A., in which he discussed “The New British Policy in Palestine.”
Pointing out that the territory of Palestine takes in the 16,000 square miles of Transjordan as well as the 9,000 square miles of what is now known as Palestine, Mr. Lipsky declared that the settlement of the Palestine question should be based on a consideration of both lands. He expressed the belief that Jewish aspirations would be fulfilled and Arab economic interests would be amply protected if the present Palestine and Transjordan areas would be reunited into one territory.
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