3 JULY 1920, Page 10

Lord Sydenham in the House of Lords on Tuesday asked

how the rights of the " immense non-Jewish majority " in Palestine were to be safeguarded if the country was to be a " national home " for the Jews. Lord Lamington joined with him in expressing alarm at Sir Herbert Samuel's appointment, which appeared to justify the boasts of -the Zionists that they would dominate Palestine. In reply, Lord Curzon said that we had a historic and religious and also a. strategic interest in Palestine, and that there was " almost a universal desire " that we should accept the mandate. The British Government would administer the country—not the Jewish. minority. He had been told that after six months Sir Herbert Samuel would be as unpopular with the Jews as he is with the Moslems.