Because the United States has failed to protest to Great Britain against the British proposal to divide Palestine in order to set up the allegedly independent country of Transjordan, “our Government has become a party to a breach of trust,” Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr., of Wisconsin, declared here tonight.
As a signatory to the Anglo-American convention of 1924, which ratified the British Mandate for Palestine, “the United States has every reason and every basis to protest this intention,” Senator La Follette told a mess meeting in the Collingwood Vienne Temple. “It could do so, also, as a partner in the joint Palestine inquiry which is now proceeding. But it has not done so and by its inaction has become a party to a breach of trust.”
Senator La Follette asserted that “British rule in Palestine is no longer based on law. It is a rule of force only, a rule of bayonets,” he said. “At present, the legal status of a Jew in Palestine–in the country which is presumed to be his home–inferior to his legal status in most other countries of the world.”
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