“The obligations entered into during the War by responsible British statesmen must be kept, unless extraordinary reasons compel a revision of their committments”, General Trevelyan Thomson, Air Minister in the former Labor cabinet, who returned from a flying tour over Iraq, Palestine and Transjordania, declared today in an interview with the representative of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
“Palestine has a certain military value for Great Britain”, he stated. General Thomson, who served in Palestine during the World War, stopped there for two days during his present flying tour.
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