The government of Canada, though it is a member of the Coucil of the League of Nations, was not consulted by the British Mandatory Power with regard to the recent stoppage of immigration into Palestine, declared Prime Minister Mackenzie King in the House of Commons last week in answer to a question put to him by Mr. S. W. Jacobs, Jewish M. P.
“Under the rules laid down by the League of Nations for the regulation of mandated territories”, declared the Prime Minister, “it is not customary for the mandatory power to bring any question of administration before the council or before individual members of the council, and the question referred to, the restriction of immigration into Palestine, has accordingly not been brought to the attention of the Canadian government. Provision is made for periodic review of the administration of the mandatory power by the organ of the league, the Mandates Commission, before which this question will doubtless come in due course”.
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