If Britain is in Palestine today. it is because she accepted that trust and that obligation. In that behalf she entered into a covenant. not only with 50 nations of the League of Nations but also in 1924 with our own country. in which the terms of that trust were clearly specfied. Great Britain undertook. and I quote. "to facilitate Jewish immigration into Palestine." Great Britain undertook. and I quote. "to facilitate Jewish settlement on the land in Palestine." These obligations. the Palestine white paper repudiates unilaterally. and without the authority of those by whom Great Britain was entrusted with the administration of the Holy Land. If we are to have a world in which law. order. and justice among men are to prevail. it is intolerable that pledges solemnly given should. if convenience so dictates. be treated as scraps of paper. I am aware of the many anxieties which today confront the people of Britain. whose cities have suffered the onslaught of Nazi guns and planes. and whose economy has been subjected to an immense strain in behalf of the common war effort. but I cannot believe it is in her own interest or in the interest of the world at large that she should deny her obligations or fail to carry out her duty in regard to this great humanitarian issue.
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