Palestine (Mandate and Balfour Declaration).

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce. – in the House of Commons at on 9 December 1929.

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Photo of Dr Thomas Shiels Dr Thomas Shiels , Edinburgh East

As regards the first supplementary question, I think it is true to say that the facts which I have stated are perfectly well known. The position is that which the British Government have always taken up in this matter. In regard to the second supplementary question, the pledge to which my hon. and gallant Friend referred was not made to the Palestinian Arabs, and the British Government have always taken the view that Palestine was excluded from that pledge.