5 JULY 1946, Page 12

100,000 JEWS

SIR,—Dr. Royden-Smith asks why I would advocate admitting another xoo,000 Jews to Palestine when I have already said that we had no right to make them our original promises. The answer is that we cannot go back to 1918 and pretend that nothing has happened since then. For nearly thirty years we have been encouraging the Jews to believe that we support their Zionist ambitions. A whole generation of Jews has been brought up in the atmosphere consequent on that belief. We cannot now say, " Sorry! We didn't mean it." We have moral duties in Palestine to the Arabs, whose country it is, and to the Jews for whose presence there we are largely responsible.—I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

The Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall, S.W. z. P. B. Homil.