Major questions of policy are for the government to determine, declared Prime Minister MacDonald, replying to a question from Major Elliot in the House of Commons as to whether the government maintained the view that major questions of policy affecting the future of the Palestine administration were outside the terms of references of the Inquiry Commission and cannot be affected by its report.
It was announced last September, the Prime Minister continued, that when the report of the Commission was received, the government would consider along what lines, within the terms of the Mandate, the future policy in Palestine can be directed. This question, he said, the government still considers, but he was unprepared to say that its conclusions will not be affected by the Commission’s report.
Major Elliot further asked whether the government’s conclusions would not be affected to the extent of deflecting in any way from the terms of the Mandate. Premier MacDonald replied, “Certainly; I only guard myself because the question is a very, very wide one.”
Wardlaw Milne’s inquiry as to whether the government had definitely decided against a Royal Commission brought from the Premier the plea for patience in the Commons “for this is one of the points which the government will review when it has finished its study of the Commission’s report.”
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