The Denver Jewish news., 1922-07-19
Commons for Palestine
Mandate
CHURCHILL DEFENDS ZIONIST
POLICY AND RtTHENBERG
CONCESSION DEMANDING VOTE
OF CONFIDENCE.
Jewlsh Telegraphlc Agency

described by Parliamentary observers
Jewish question, the House of Com
mons today rejected by n vote of 2o2
10 81 the motion Of Sir W. IoyaSon-
Hicks. calling for n reconsideration
of the terms of the Palestine Mandate
before II is submitted to the League
of Nations. BY way of consuming the
Governments prescns Palestine policy.
he moved n reduction Of the Colonial
Secretary'S salary by f100.
Speaking on the vote. prior TO Ioyn-
son-Hicks. Olmsbv Gore, II Staunch
friend of the Zionist policy. reminded
the author of the motion Of his state.
mcnt in 1918 that he (Joynson-liicks)
was ready to help the Jews take pos
session of their own land. olmsby
Gore said he hoped the Government
would in no way he deferred by hos
tile criticism and should carry out the
terms of the BalfOur Declaration. the
campaign against the Declaration he
ing really contrary to the hest Brit
ish interests.
Sir Joynson Hicks explained that
his motion to reduce the Colonial Sec
retarys salary by f1O0 was merely
formal and proceeded to say that the
Government was taking a grave re
sponsibility in acting ON the Mandate
without previously submitting it to the
ha So.I NNlifsfl
was totally against democratic prin-
ciple. The trouble with the PalcS inc
policy was not the Declaration. he
said but the way the IioniSts were
permitted by the British Government
To control the Palestine Government
Referring to Sir Herbert Samuel
Sir .Ioynson Hicks declared that the
present High Commissioner was Il
member of the Zionist Organization
before he went to Palestine and that
the Zionists had nlSays claimed their
representative. 1t is insufficient. he
said. for an English Governor to hc
above suspicion. The non-Icwish o0fo
of the Palestinian population must he
licvc him to he above suspicion. The
Arabs. he said. are entitled to say
who Shall enter their country.
Turning to the agreement for the
concessions between the British Gov
crnment and Pinhas Nuremberg. the
Jewish engineer. Sir Joyason-Hicks ac-
cuscd the Palestine Government of
blocking all concessions till Jews
We're strong enough to take them over
The Gutenberg concession, he said.
was most astonishing. He was no,
ut all sure that the Gutenberg scheme
was good. and Britain had no right
to hand over the control of Palestine
to n man whose character was subject
to grave suspicion.
Lord Eustace Percy in supper ing
the antiGovernment amendments at
lacked the Colonial Office for not hay
ing invited English engineers to com
pete for the electriiication conces-
sions.
Voicing the views of the Labor Par
ty Morgan Jones declared he was
sure the Jews and Arabs would live
together in peace if they Were left
alone. He was certain, he said that
the British firms who We're rnviouS
of the concession were behind the
present agitation in the press, He
could not understand the misgvings
of the Mohammedans and the Cath
olics. being confident. he said. that the
religious rights would he safeguarded.
Winston Churchill. Colonial Sccre-
tary. declared the Government was
bound to make the question of this
motion n vote of confidence. There
were two questions which the House
had to determine. Churchill said. One,
whether the Government should keep
the pledges made to Zionists; and
two whether the Administration
charged with carrying of pledges was
proper one. While the House
should criticize an improper admins
tration. he said. it could not repudiate
the Governments pledge of 1917. The
pledges that were made during the
War were not only on the merits of
the Zionist case but We're considered
valuable because of the support elected
thereby among Jews. particularly in
the United $ ates and Russia. Church
i'll said
Continuing. Churchill said that he
accepted his share of his great trans
action which "leaves n formidable
obligation upon the Government. hui
is bound TO prove an interchangeable