ARAB AND JEW
Sns,—The Palestine Royal Commission is a more authoritative judge of the implications of the Churchill White Paper of 1922 than " A Student of the Palestine Problem." It states in its Report that the White Paper's definition of the National Home has sometimes been taken to preclude the establishment of a Jewish State. " But," it goes on to say: " though the phraseology was clearly intended to conciliate, as far as might be, Arab antagonism to the National Home, there is nothing in it to prohibit the ultimate establishment of a Jewish State, and.Mr. Churchill himself has told us in evidence that no such prohibition was intended. This view was naturally shared by the Zionist Organisation. . . . One reason why no public allusion to a State was made in 1922 was the same reason why no such allusion had been made in 1917. . . . It was not till the great rise in the volume of Jewish immigration in the last few years that the prospect of a Jewish State came within the horizon." (Pp. 33-34.) —I am, Sir, Yours obediently,
S. LEVENBURG.
54-Lyncroft Gardens, N.W. 6.
[This correspondence is now closed.—En., The Spectator.]
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