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Crossland, Cyril 08 07 22, Parliament and Palestine, Yorkshire Post
PARLIAMENT AND PALESTINE, 8 July, #1922Live, Yorkshire Post, Timeline of British Mandatory Palestine
“Sir- In Mr Churchill’s witty speech on the Palestine mandate, reported by you on July 5. he asserts that “the House as a whole had definitely committed itself on more than one occasion.. to facilitate the achievement of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine.”
May I beg your assistance in discovering when and how this was done? I have followed events in Palestine and in Parliament carefully, and can recollect no occasion upon which Parliament was consulted on the Jewish national home. It is repeatedly stated that the British nation is pledged to support the Balfour declaration, but as far as I am aware that declaration was made and incorporated into the mandate without any consideration by or authority from Parliament. If this is so, to talk of our being bound to honour our pledge when they are found to involve injustice and danger is nonsense.
The Balfour declaration is merely another of those efforts to rule by bureaucracy against which you have already protested, and Mr Churchill’s speech an attempt to bluff Parliament into acceptance of the assumption that it has authorised a matter upon which it was not even consulted.
I should further like to be enlightened upon the extraordinary devotion shown by Ministers to this most dangerous and reactionary experiment. All precedent foretells its doom in bloodshed and anarchy. The conditions are the same as in the old experiments in Ireland, Armenia and the Balkans, but the results are likely to be on a far larger scale in the East. As it is incredible that Ministers are blind to the danger, or really imagine that this time the same causes will produce different results, one is anxious to know what power is driving them. Yours, etc., C. CROSSLAND.
Broughton-in-Furness, July 6, 1922
Crossland, Cyril 08 07 22, Parliament and Palestine, Yorkshire Post
PARLIAMENT AND PALESTINE, 8 July, #1922Live, Yorkshire Post, Timeline of British Mandatory Palestine
“Sir- In Mr Churchill’s witty speech on the Palestine mandate, reported by you on July 5. he asserts that “the House as a whole had definitely committed itself on more than one occasion.. to facilitate the achievement of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine.”
May I beg your assistance in discovering when and how this was done? I have followed events in Palestine and in Parliament carefully, and can recollect no occasion upon which Parliament was consulted on the Jewish national home. It is repeatedly stated that the British nation is pledged to support the Balfour declaration, but as far as I am aware that declaration was made and incorporated into the mandate without any consideration by or authority from Parliament. If this is so, to talk of our being bound to honour our pledge when they are found to involve injustice and danger is nonsense.
The Balfour declaration is merely another of those efforts to rule by bureaucracy against which you have already protested, and Mr Churchill’s speech an attempt to bluff Parliament into acceptance of the assumption that it has authorised a matter upon which it was not even consulted.
I should further like to be enlightened upon the extraordinary devotion shown by Ministers to this most dangerous and reactionary experiment. All precedent foretells its doom in bloodshed and anarchy. The conditions are the same as in the old experiments in Ireland, Armenia and the Balkans, but the results are likely to be on a far larger scale in the East. As it is incredible that Ministers are blind to the danger, or really imagine that this time the same causes will produce different results, one is anxious to know what power is driving them. Yours, etc., C. CROSSLAND.
Broughton-in-Furness, July 6, 1922