THE PARTITION OF PALESTINE WILL NOT BE IN FULL EFFECT BEFORE 1942, ACCORDING TO WHAT IS TERMED AN “AUTHENTIC ESTIMATE” PUBLISHED TODAY IN THE MORNING POST.
THE CONSERVATIVE DAILY ASSERTS THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT INTENDS TO LOSE NO TIME IN APPOINTING A SPECIAL COMMISSION TO PREPARE THE PARTITION SCHEME IN GREATER DETAIL FOR SUBMISSION TO THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND TO PARLIAMENT. POSSIBLY EIGHTEEN MONTHS LATER, THE PAPER STATES, THE TECHNICAL DEMARCATION COMMISSION WILL START WORK.
“IT IS AUTHENTICALLY ESTIMATED,” THE POST SAYS, “THAT THREE YEARS WILL ELAPSE BEFORE THE PALESTINE PARTITION PLAN IS READY TO BE PUT INTO OPERATION AND THE WHOLE SCHEME WILL NOT BE IN FULL WORKING ORDER UNTIL 1942.”
THE POST FURTHER DECLARES IT HAS REASON TO BELIEVE THAT SEVERAL MEMBERS OF THE PEEL ROYAL COMMISSION WILL BE ASKED TO SERVE ON THE NEW BODY. REGARDING THE BOUNDARIES, THE ARTICLE STATES THAT THE SPECIAL COMMISSION WILL BE MAINLY CONCERNED WITH THE POLITICAL PROBLEMS OF DEMARCATION WHILE THE TECHNICAL COMMISSION WILL CONCENTRATE ON THE PRECISE GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISION.
CONCURRENTLY, NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT, THE JEWS AND THE ARABS WILL PROCEED AT JERUSALEM, ACCORDING TO THE POST. THE SPECIAL COMMISSION’S PLAN WILL BE SUBMITTED FIRST TO PARLIAMENT, THE PAPER STATES, THEN TO THE COUNCIL AND THE LEAGUE.
A RECENT ISSUE OF THE BLACKSHIRT, ORGAN OF THE BRITISH UNION OF FASCISTS, URGED, “GIVE PALESTINE TO GERMANY.” IT SAYS THAT PALESTINE IS SUITABLE FOR GERMANY WHICH IS “A POWER OF PROVEN ADMINISTRATIVE CAPACITY DEPRIVED OF THEIR OWN COLONIES BUT HOPING AND DESERVING EVENTUALLY TO REGAIN THEM.”
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