The House of Commons was at its best in the
debate on the Legislative Council which it is proposed to establish in Palestine which would be highly detrimental to the position of the Jews. The speeches revealed the depth of feeling aroused by the monstrous racial persecution in Germany. The most moving of them was that de- livered by Mr. Churchill. It was not the time to allow the door of escape to be shut, or obstructed, to the Jews when, as he put it in a passage of passionate eloquence, " people are being reduced from affluence to ruin and even in that position denied the opportunity of earning their daily bread, cut out even from the relief grants that tide the destitute through the winter, their little children pilloried in the schools, their blood and race declared accursed and. defiling, accused of every kind of human wickedness by an overwhelming power and vile tyranny." It was clear from the tone of the debate that Mr. Thomas will have to make a better case for the proposal if the Government is to escape actual defeat in the division lobby when the question comes up for discussion again.
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