In the course of a speech yesterday in the House of Lords, Lord Allenby, conqueror of Palestine, said: “To an onlooker like myself, the recent events in Palestine show that there is danger of too much optimism leading to a lessening of the safeguards. We could and we should afford reasonable security. We have assumed a great responsibility by the assumption of several mandates, responsibilities which other nations declined to assume. We could not lightly lay them down. We are in honor bound to carry out our trusteeship. Our army force in former years was a great imperial police force which is now becoming a universal police force. We must keep it such if the state would uphold the mandates entrusted to it. Attack is the only effective from of defense.”
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