The new British policy in Palestine is defended today in a three column newspaper article by Judge Eliol Loefgren, chairman of the Wailing Wall Commission. Charging the critics of the government with ignoring Great Britain’s pledges to the non-Jewish population of Palestine, he says “we must not be astonished if the government which had no responsibility for the ‘promise’ but has to stand for it, in the first instance tries to find a solution or an interpretation to make both ends meet.”
On the other hand, Judge Loefgren pays tribute to the Jewish settlements in Palestine and the “remarkable results they produced for the moral and material improvement of the country.” He concludes that if the Zionist movement is to be productive of happiness in the long run “even the Zionists must realize their limitations and the limitations of conditions.”
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