While welcoming the officially voiced determination of the Government not to send the Royal Commission to Palestine before order has been completely restored, a Zionist official today described as “far from reassuring” Colonial Secretary Ormsby-Gore’s remarks on the question of possible suspension of immigration pending the Commission’s findings.
The Rev. M. L. Perlzweig, honorary secretary of the British Zionist Federation and a member of the Council of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, voiced the Zionist view on the Commission.
“It is premature,” he said, “to venture an opinion before the Agency’s careful consideration of the Commission’s defined functions. Zionists welcome warmly Mr. Ormsby-Gore’s refusal to dispatch the Commission before restoration of order, nevertheless, his answer to the crucial question of immigration is far from reassuring. Suspending immigration during the inquiry would mean to pronounce sentence first and to invite the jury afterward. According to the Zionist view, the most elementary justice demands that the Commission shall examine the situation while immigration is flowing normally.”
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