"ملف ٣٢/١١ اللجنة الملكية المعنية بفلسطين" [و‎‎٧‎١] (٣٠٨/١٤١)

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SUMMARY OF RECENT STATEMENTS AND
RESOLUTIONS
1. Statement of Policy.
In the Statement of Policy of July, 1937 (Cmd. ^
was stated that His Majesty’s Government had been driven to
the conclusion “ that a scheme of partition on the general lines
recommended by the Commission represents the best and most
hopeful solution of the deadlock ”
0K “ His Majesty’s Government, therefore, propose to take such
steps as are necessary and appropriate .... to obtain freedom
to give effect to a scheme of partition, to which they earnestly
J^pe that it may be possible to secure an effective^ measure of
consent on the part of the communities concerned.”
2. Parliament.
The House of Commons, on the 21st July, 1937 , passed a
resolution to the following effect: —
“ That the proposals contained in Command Paper
No. 5513 relating to Palestine should be brought before
the League of Nations with a view to enabling His Majesty’s
Government, after adequate enquiry, to present to Parlia
ment a definite scheme taking into full account all the
recommendations of the Command Paper.”
3. Statements by Mr. Ormsby Gore before Perma?ient Mandates
Commission.
“ What I ask is that you should advise the Council that, in
the light of our experience and our knowledge of Palestine, a
solution on the lines of partition should be explored as the best
and most hopeful solution of what the mandatory Power is itself
convinced is, in fact, a deadlock. I do not ask you to approve
a scheme of partition, or to settle these questions of defence,
Minorities, &c. All I ask you is to recommend that the door
3 nould not be closed to a solution by partition. I ask you to
^ open the door and not to close it. I do not ask the Mandates
Commission to commit itself finally, but to allow the mandatory
Power to explore the solution which it thinks best in the circum
stances, and to produce for the League in due course a more
definite scheme for your later consideration.” (Minutes of
Thirty-Second Session, pp. 37-38-)
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“ it was his belief that, in view of the actual wording of the
Royal Commission’s report, and in view of the mandatoiy
Power’s declaration that a deadlock had arisen and that its
hopes of seeing Palestine evolve into a self-governing State,
where Jews and Arabs would have reconciled their differences,
had not been fulfilled, and in view of the fact that neighbouring