Journal and Tribune · 16 July 1921

CP-1921-004

Will Expel Bolshevists

High Commissioner For Palestine Tells Of Ambition For Palestinian People.

Jerusalem, July 15

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“Sir Herbert Samuel, the High Commissioner for Palestine, on the occasion of the king’s birthday, addressed a representative gathering here. In the course of his speech he expressed regret that harmony between the devotees of different creeds which he earnestly desired to promote had not been attained.

He declared that Great Britain would never impose on the Palestinian people a policy contrary to their religious, political and economic interests… Sir Herbert said he was anxious that the Palestinian people should be more closely associated in the administration.

Great Britain, he assured his hearers, intended to make provision for the government of Palestine in an instrument which would be registered with the League of Nations. The interests of the non-Jewish population would be not only safeguarded by the mandate itself but likewise in the instrument referred to in which the future constitution of the country would be defined.”

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The Palestinian people, as a phrase, in an American paper in 1921. The High Commissioner means everybody in the country; the words are on the page either way.

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