Moslem emotions
Sir: Dr Witton-Davies (Letters, 12 May) does not seem to have read my letter (5 May) very carefully. In no part of it did I state that Transjordan was not under British mandate until its independence in 1946. I simply referred to the League of Nations Article of separation of Transjordan from Palestine — I did not say from the mandate — the inclusive nature of which was patent from these ratification proceedings of 1922. The full extent of the British mandate is however entirely irrelevant to our subject, which concerned only that precise area called Palestine to which the unjust and disastrous partition was applied, as a final result of which the then Jewish minority had obtained threequarters of that area by 1948-49. Mr H. Pinner's attempt to deny my figures, by adding to them the Arab territory of Transjordan so as to alter the proportions, was a false and rather feeble ploy.
The now almost universal view that the Palestinians are entitled to full independence and sovereignty within thei • own land is the only one that could bring a real and lasting peace to the area, and the considerable problems involved are not beyond the wits of man, with full cooperation from all the sides concerned. N. Si/kin 3 Abbotts Crescent, Enfield, Middlesex
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