A charge that the British government has not carried out its two-fold obligations under the Palestine Mandate by crystallizing the development of the Jewish National Home at its present stage, and sharply-worded criticism of the government’s action in issuing the new White Paper are contained in a letter published today in the London Times under the signatures of former Premier Stanley Baldwin, former foreign secretary Austen Chamberlain and former colonial secretary Leopold S. Amery, all members of the Conservative shadow cabinet.
The three Conservative leaders pay tribute to Dr. Chaim Weizmann for his unswerving loyalty to Great Britain and point out that he would have gone to any length compatible with his duties to his own people to facilitate the task of the government in carrving out the Mandate. They recall that the British government did not avail itself of Dr. Weizmann’s suggestion, in a latter dated September 19, 1930, to call a round table conference of Jews and Arabs despite a definite promise to that effect last year by Premier MacDonald.
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