The British Government has no intention of departing from the limits it has laid down for Jewish immigration into Palestine, although well aware of the support being given by Jews to the allied cause, Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald said in the House of Commons today. Replying to a question regarding the Holy Land, MacDonald said:
“The steady improvement in the internal situation in Palestine has been fully maintained, and I am fully aware that whole-hearted support is being given by Jews throughout the world to the allied cause, one purpose of which is the freeing of Jews from the cruel persecutors in Central Europe. . .
“His Majesty’s Government allow for a very considerable immigration of Jews into Palestine over the next ten years and there is no question of departing from that policy. The legal quota of immigration allowed something over 10,000 Jews to go and settle in Palestine in six months, which I think is a very considerable degree of immigration.”
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