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British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Chapter II, Historical Summary, 1922. Volume I - Page 20 |
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(1) Safeguard the civil, political and economic interests of the people.
(2) Provide for the creation of a national independent Government in accordance with the spirit of paragraph 4, Article 12, of the Covenant of the League of Nations.
(3) Safeguard the legal rights of foreigners.
(4) Guarantee religious equality to all peoples. (5) Guarantee the rights of minorities.
(6) Guarantee the rights of the Assisting Power" *
3rd June, 1922.
Mr. Winston Churchill, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, issued a statement of British Policy in Palestine • which included an interpretation of the Balfour Declaration, and also, as a step in the development of self-governing institutions, a positive proposal to establish a Legislative Council containing a large proportion of members to be elected on a wide franchise. The full text of this statement of policy is reproduced at the end of this chapter as annexure A. The principal points made therein were as follows :-
(1) His Majesty's Government re-affirmed the Balfour Declaration.
(2) A Jewish National Home would be founded in Palestine.
The Jewish people would be in Palestine as of right and not on sufferance. But His Majesty's Government had no intention that Palestine should become "as Jewish as England is English".
(3) Nor did His Majesty's Government contemplate the disappearance or subordination of the Arab population, language or culture.
(4) The status of all citizens of Palestine would be Palestinian.
No section of the population would have any other status in the eyes of the law.
(5) His Majesty's Government intended to foster the establishment of a full measure of self-government in Palestine, and as the next step a Legislative Council with a majority of elected members would be set up immediately.
(6) The special position of the Zionist Executive did not entitle it to share in any degree in the government of the country. (7) Immigration would not exceed the economic capacity of the country at the time to absorb new arrivals.
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* Cmd. 1700.
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