Senators Copeland, Austin and Hastings, who have returned from an unofficial survey in Palestine, believe that “in the last analysis the British Government must take the blame for the chaos in the Holy Land.”
Their report, made public by Senators Copeland and Austin, who arrived on the Conte di Savoia yesterday, holds the United States Government “cannot be held blameless unless it calls sharply to the attention of Great Britain our feeling that the mandate is not being administered as it should be.”
“No matter how pressing may be the demands of a Presidential election,” the statement says, “time out must be taken to have the atrocities in Palestine stopped. We cannot shed out own responsibility until we remind Great Britain of its neglected duty and insist upon its performance.”
The Senators based the responsibility of the United States on a treaty with Britain which includes the terms of the Palestine mandate.
“Failure to deal sternly with the lawbreakers and to end the inexcusable acts of violence would bring discredit even to the police department of a second-class American city,” the statement holds. “All in all there was created a cleavage between Arab and Jew, which will take years to close.”
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