Palestine’s new High Commissioner, Field Marshal Viscount Gort, today told the people of this country that he has brought “all the good will and friendship in his armory” to his post. He spoke briefly after he had taken the cath of office.
Thanking the population for the welcome extended him when he arrived yesterday, Lord Gort said: “This hour marks a milestone in my life and a new stretch of road which it is my earnest wish we will cover in harmony and friendship, which is my aim and goal.”
Paying tribute to the outgoing High Commissioner, Sir Harold A. MacMichael, and appealing to the population “to have patience,” the new High Commissioner asserted that a successful solution of all political issues hangs on recognition of what is or is not possible. Let us, therefore,” he continued, “all be far-seeing in our deliberations and always recall the advice preferred in the Book of Proverbs; ‘Where there is no vision, the prople perish.'”
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