Hope that the British government by withdrawing the ban on Jewish immigration “which nothing in the state of Palestine justifies” will put itself “right with the Mandate Commission and the world” is expressed in a strongly worded editorial in the “Sunday Times” which condemns the British government’s policy in not only making the Jews “indignant but all who are sensible about British international relations”.
The sequence of events, says the “Sunday Times”, has been extraordinary. “First the Jews are massacred in their National Home. Then the Inquiry Commission instead of fixing the immediate responsibilities strays outside of its terms of reference and blames the Mandate, the Jews and everyone but the murderers. Then the government, instead of throwing the slovenly and biased report into the waste paper basket proceeds to act on two of its recommendations about immigration and land and finally proceeds to hang up the Mandate altogether until someone else has reported”.
At all costs, the “Sunday Times” concludes, the government “should reverse the ban which has raised a storm of passionate protest in three continents and is doing Great Britain much international injury”.
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