“There are no grounds for the suggestion that Jewish citizens of Palestine do not have the same rights to self-defence as people in this country,” William G.A. Ormsby-Gore, Colonial Secretary, declared in Commons yesterday.
Mr. Ormsby-Gore made the statement in reply to the Rev. Campbell Stephen, Independent Laborite, who had asked about a statement attributed to a magistrate in Tiberias, Palestine, that a Jew should run away if he was attacked.
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