23 DECEMBER 1922, Page 3

We publish elsewhere a letter by Mr. Israel Cohen on

the question of Palestine. Later we shall return to a point in the controversy which Mr. Cohen has not touched, but which we hold to be the governing factor. It is the risk, and a very real risk, of an Arab rising, which would cost us some £200,000,000 or more to deal with. Surely we should be wise to cut a loss so great. Further, we want to point out that Palestine appears to be the only country in the world, the inhabitants of which are to hot deliberately deprived of the right of self-determination.