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CHAPTER II.

Commission of 1021. The chief recommendations of the Commissioners were as follows :-

(1) That the British Government should issue a clear statement of policy defining the meaning it attached to the passages in the Mandate providing for the safeguarding of the rights of the non-Jewish communities and laying down more explicit directions as to the conduct of policy on such vital issues as land tenure and immigration.

(2) That the Government should make a clear statement regarding Jewish immigration, and should review the machinery for its regulation and control with the object of preventing "a repetition of the excessive immigration of 1925 and 1926"; and that non-Jewish interests should be given some voice in discussions on immigration.

(3) That a scientific enquiry should be held into land cultivation and settlement possibilities; and that, pending this enquiry, the eviction of peasant cultivators from the land should be checked.

(,!) That, as regards the Zionist Organization, Government should reaffirm the statement made in 1922, that the special position assigned to it by the Mandate did not entitle it to share in any degree in the Government of Palestine; and that the Government should, if possible, lay down some precise definition of the meaning of Article 4 of the Mandate.

(5) That it was essential to the peace and security of Palestine that a Commission should be appointed to determine the rights of both parties at the Wailing Wall.

(6) That advice should be taken as to the most suitable form of garrison; that no reduction should be made till then in the existing garrison; and that an independent enquiry should be made into the Department of Police.

1930.

3rd April, 1930.

Following the publication of the report the Prime Minister announced in the House of Commons that "His Majesty's Government will continue to administer Palestine in accordance with the terms of the Mandate", and stated that the Government was studying the recommendations made by the Shaw Commission.

May, 1930.

A statement with regard to British policy in Palestine was made by the British accredited representative at a special session of the

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