Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 9 December 1920.
Mr David Lloyd George
, Caernarvon District of Boroughs
I would refer my hon. Friend to the replies given by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for War on this subject on the 26th October and on the 23rd November, to which I have nothing to add. With regard to the last part of the question, the British forces in Palestine are already in course of reduction.
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