THE PALESTINE ROYAL COMMISSION [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—The Palestine Royal Commission will leave only when order has been restored. As the members of the Commission are not themselves intimately familiar with the subject of their inquiry, may I suggest that much time would be saved, and a better result achieved, if the Commission would utilise the interval to hear the evidence of representatives of the Arab and Jewish viewpoints available at the moment in London ? This procedure would clear a good deal of the groun 1, and permit the Commission to go to Palestine with a detailed programme of the material which they will have to examine on the spot.
Since writing my last letter, I learn that- the Zionists deny their readiness to make the gesture of good-will referred to in the report of The Times of July 24th. This disposes of my approval of the presumed act, and I may add here that I intend to raise before the Royal Commission the question as to whether the reservation of Art. 4 of the Mandate that the Zionist Organisation shall be recognised as the Jewish Agency " so long as its organisation and constitution are in the opinion of the Mandatory appropriate" should not be made operative in the light of the material which I will submit. It does not seem that a satisfactory solution of the Palestinian problem can be achieved without a radical reorganisation of the Jewish Agency calculated to bring about a more healthy representation of the Jewish- people and the Jewish interest in Palestine. A careful study of the history, policies, constitution and administrative and financial practices of the Zionist Organisation and the- Jewish Agency which it dominates will bear out this point.—Yours
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