Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce. – in the House of Commons at on 9 December 1929.
Lieut-Colonel Charles Howard-Bury
, Chelmsford
Is it not the case that on 24th October, 1915, Sir Henry McMahon made a declaration stating
I am empowered in the name of the British Government to recognise and support the independence of the Arabs within the limits of the boundaries proposed by King Hussein
and that these limits included Palestine?
