The long-awaited parliamentary debate on Palestine opened this afternoon in the House of Commons with Lloyd George, leader of the Liberal party, the first speaker. He started by moving for adjournment, an effort to give the debate a friendly character and indicating that the opposition to the government will not call for a vote.
After calling the attention of the government to its Palestine policy, the Liberal spokesman said that the Palestine problem was a difficult one because two races were involved, with both of whom Great Britain was on friendly relations and all wanted justice to be done to one of the races without injustice to the other.
RECALLS WAR-TIME PLEDGES
As the Prime Minister during whose term of office the Balfour Declaration was issued in 1917, Lloyd George turned to the British obligations under the Mandate resulting from the Balfour Declaration. He said that an under-
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