Failure of the Palestine administration to anticipate and prevent the 1936 Arab disorders was criticized editorially today in the Times.
Voicing the hope that the Royal Commission’s report of its investigation will explain why the Palestine Government was inactive in suppression of the riots until military reinforcements arrived, the editorial declared:
“An uneasy feeling remains that the past indecision at Whitehall and the excessive optimism at Jerusalem were responsible for no small part of the Palestine troubles.”
The editorial also said that Jews could hardly expect to relegate Arabs to the mere status of non-Jews, and that Arabs could not expect abolition of the Balfour Declaration.
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