The last proposed solution to the Palestine problem that Britain offered has been rejected by Jews and Arabs alike. The solution was contained in a second edition of the illconceived MorrisonGrady plan. which called for the creation of a Jewish ghetto in Palestine and which our Government rejected. The latest British plan was in fact a new embodiment of the principles of the White Paper of 1939. cast in a fresh mold. but tending to the same end: to cramp Jewish development within severely restricted areas. to limit Jewish immigration so as to freeze the Jews as a permanent minority of onethird of the total population. and to hold out to the Arabs the prospects of ultimate domination in a preponderantly Arab state. Under the terms of the latest British plan. Jews would have no control over their immigration into Palestine or over settlement on the land. They would have no right to govern themselves as was envisaged bythe Balfour Declaration which promised the establishment of a Jewish homeland. Having failed to persuade either the Arabs or the Jews to accept itslroposal.
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