The Royal Commission on Palestine appointed to investigate the causes of the disorders in the Holy Land and recommend a new Government program to further the peaceful development of the country, will not submit its report to the British Cabinet until the middle of next month, it was reliably learned today.
The commission, under the chairmanship of Lord Peel, is believed to have decided to recommend the division of Palestine into an independent Arab state including Transjordan and a Jewish Dominion within the British Empire. It is understood that the commission, after lengthy consideration, has dropped schemes for the division of the country into Arab and Jewish cantons on the Swiss model.
Reports that the commission intends to recommend division of the country have aroused strong protest among both Arabs and Jews and have also been sharply criticized in British Parliamentary circles. An effort by Liberal and Labour M.P.’s to secure assurances from the Government that the House of Commons would be given an opportunity to discuss the Commission’s report before the Cabinet acted upon it recently met with Premier Baldwin’s blunt refusal to commit himself to this course.
Immediately on publication of the Royal Commission’s report a special session of the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations will be convened at Geneva to consider the report and recommendations as well as the report of the British Government on the carrying out of its mandate for Palestine and Transjordan during 1936.
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