SIR,--The letter by Dr. Norman Maclean in your issue of
March zoth 3 welcome to everyone who has followed the deplorable record of the Colonial Office in its administration of the Mandate for Palestine. The vacillation and the blunders which have marked the course of that business would take long to tell. Reference may be made to the debate in the House of Commons May 22nd-23rd and July 20th, 1939, on the White Paper issued May 1-th. Mr. Churchill declared the new Immigration Laws to be I breach and repudiation of the Balfour Declaration. Mr Amery Ltd he could never hold up his head again if he voted for what he deemed inconceivable—namely, that any British Government would ev.er.R0 back on the pledge given not only to Jews, but to the whole c'llised world when it assumed the mandate. Mr. Herbert called the.A1:te Paper a cynical breach of pledges. In spite of a three-line .1'13, the Government majority sank from a usual 220 to 89—even NI:msters abstained from voting.—I am, yours faithfully, 5 Lansdowne Crescent, Edinburgh, 12. ANDREW WISHART.
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