The Jews have as good a title to make Palestine their home as have the Arabs, Winston Churchill, former Chancellor of the Exchequer and author of the Churchill White Paper, declared at a meeting here. There is no reason why the Jews and Arabs should not dwell side by side. The Jews brought great wealth and civilization to Palestine. No British party will repudiate the wartime undertaking to the Zionist movement, he said.
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