The Palestine government does not intend to change its policy with regard to the preference which it gives to Arab schools as compared with Jewish, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, the Colonial Minister, stated today in the House of Commons.
The statement was made in reply to an inquiry made in the British Parliament as to why the Palestine government has assigned a portion of its ten million dollar loan for the building of an Arab school and nothing for Jewish schools.
The Colonial Minister pointed out that Jewish national institutions in Palestine have chosen to maintain their own school system and that the government has never accepted responsibility for the expenses which maintenance of such a system would involve. The Palestine government is helping maintain the Jewish school system in accordance with the policy of the previous High Commissioners, Sir Philip declared.
Asked whether the time hasn’t come to change this policy, the Colonial Minister replied firmly in the negative.
Questions were also asked in Commons with regard to the strike which Jewish and Arab labor declared in the Iraq Petroleum Company works in Haifa. These questions went unanswered.
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