The Seventh Dominion League sponsored by Colonel Josiah Wedgwood, having for its aim that Palestine eventually become the Seventh Dominion within the British Empire is doomed at the outset, states an editorial in the “Near East and India Magazine,” considered to speak with authority from the Foreign Office.
The League is doomed to failure, the paper writes, because it is based on two untenable hypotheses: first, that the Palestine Arabs would ever consent to being eternally denied an opportunity of linking themselves in a confederation with other Arab-speaking countries; second, that Zionist emigrants to Palestine from non-British countries will desire to become British citizens. This would not be likely unless a Jewish majority were assured them in Palestine, a thing which will never be, the paper writes.
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