PALESTINE REPORT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 200, 24 July 1937, Page 9

PALESTINE REPORT

GENEVA PROCEDURE. CONSIDERATION ON FRIDAY. ARABS AND JEWS PLEASED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received July 24, 11.55 a.in. RUGBY, July 23. The Colonial Secretary (Mr W. Ormsby Gore) will leave London on Tuesday for Geneva, where lie will lay the report pf tho Palestine Commission before the Permanent Mandates Commission, which will begin its sittings on Friday, and its conclusions will go before the League Council in September. When Parliament reassembles on October 21 it will be able to take up the issue again in the light of the League’s proceedings, and the Government, after nil adequate inquiry, will present a definite scheme. Meanwhile, the Government’s decision to agree to a further inquiry before the final adoption of the scheme has been well received by both the Arabs and the Jews in Palestine.

DECISION RELIEVES PARTIES. LONDON, July 23. The Daily Telegraph’s Jerusalem correspondent says the Gritish Government’s decision to permit further inquiry before the final adoption of the Palestine scheme pleased and relieved both the Arabs and Jews, enabling both to take counsel and offer countersuggestions to the partition.