The adoption of the report of the Permanent Mandates Commission on the Palestine Mandate by the Council of the League of Nations and the address delivered by Austen Chamberlain in defense of the Jewish pioneers in Palestine, continues to hold the attention of the Italian press.
“Austen Chamberlain was expected to speak in a more vigorous and pro-Zionist tone”, declares the “Corriere Della Serra”, “but he was more moderate after his conversation with the Pope”, the paper states.
Senor Leon, the representative of Spain in the League’s Council who was received by the Pope at the same time, should have been the mouth-piece of the Pope at the Council’s session. “The fact that Leon said nothing on the Palestine question and the moderate tone of Chamberlain is significant and leads to the suggestion that an arrangement was made by the Pope, Sr. Leon and Chamberlain to drop the Zionist question as quickly as possible andadopt the report of the Permanent Mandates Commission. The speech of Austen Chamberlain was intended only to play up to the Zionist gallery and in reality meant nothing,” the “Corriere Della Serra” asserts.
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