I am dealing with this matter more fully to-morrow, so perhaps Colonel Howard-Bury will not mind my reserving my comments until then, Dr. Drummond Shiels, the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, said in the House of Commons this afternoon, in reply to a question put to him by Colonel Howard-Bury on the O’Donnell Commission to Palestine.
When would the new Commission that was to go out to Palestine start, and who were to be the members of the Commission, Colonel Howard-Bury asked, receiving in reply the information from Dr. Shiels that the Commission is already at work, and it consists of Sir Samuel O’Donnell and Mr. H. Griffin of the Treasury.
The suggestion that the matter should be left over till to-morrow (when the supplementary estimate for Colonial and Middle Eastern Services will be taken) was made by Dr. Shiels in response to a further question by Colonel Howard-Bury, who in view of the fact that “Palestine has had a surfeit of Commissions already, and that this Commission has already reported on all relevant matters,” proposed amid laughter, that Dr. Shiels should “see if this Commission cannot be stopped”.
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