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Now It Can Be Told
The Inside Story of the London Palestine
Round-Table Conference
By WILLIAM ZUKERMAN
Who is responsible for the
reversal of Lord Passfield's
Palestine Policy? Who mere
the spokesmen when the
Palestine question was tackled
by the Round-Table Confer
ence at London which resulted
in MacDonald’s letter to Dr.
Weizmann? Who wrote the
letter to Weizmann which
Prime Minister MacDonald
signed? Read this revealing
article by the most authorita
tive Jewish foreign correspon
dent.—The Editor.
LONDON :—Whatever official lan
guage chooses to say of the legal and
political aspect of the White Paper on
Palestine now, after the Prime Minis
ter’s "authoritative interpretation,” the
spirit of Lord Passfield’s famous docu
ment is decidedly dead. In point of
fact it has been dead for some time; it
was killed at the very moment of birth
by the fierce storm of Jewish protests
evoked by its publication. Hut it was
not until now that official cognizance
has been taken of the demise, and the
corpse given decent public burial.
Ostensibly the purpose of the Prime
Minister’s letter to Dr. Weizmann is to
interpret the earlier document and to
remove the misconception created by
it, but a closer acquaintance reveals
that most of the “interpretations" con
stitute a complete reversal of the older
terms and that the new document,
taken as a whole, marks the passing of
the White Paper.
What brings out this fact most forci
bly is not the presence of various small
er or larger concessions made to Zion
ism—in matters affecting Jewish im
migration to Palestine, land purchase,
employment on public works, participa
tion in the development scheme and the
like —with which the new Paper is
replete, but something far bigger and
more important than any and all of
these combined, and that is the under
lying spirit of the new document; the
spirit of extreme friendliness to the
Jews and of good will toward the Jew
ish National Home which permeates
the Prime Minister’s letter to Dr.
Weizmann, in contra-distinction to the
spirit of bitterness, querulousness and
petty fault-finding with everything the
Jews have done in Palestine which
characterized the White Paper of 1930
and which was chiefly responsible for
the Jewish protests.
The new spirit is seen not in the
document alone but even more so,
perhaps, in the negotiations which led
up to its issue. These negotiations are
not as widely known as they deserve
to be. In effect they were a Round-
Table Conference on Palestine s nlar
in many respects to the larger R m d-
Table Conference on India which was
held in London at the same time
believe that the result of these if . .na
tions—Mr. MacDonald’s letter t D r
Weizmann—will be better unde; tood
if something more is known about this
smaller but not less interesting 1’.des
tine Round-Table Conference.
The negotiations which led up to
the new Government statement on
Palestine were started on Monday,
November 17th, on the same day that
the famous debate on Palestine took
place in the House of Commons. This
truly remarkable debate was the pre
lude to the negotiations. In a sense
it took the place of the formal opening
of the Palestine Round-Table Confer
ence; the speeches of Mr. Lloyd
George, Major Elliot, Commander Ken
worthy, Mr. Daniel Hopkins, Mr. Harry
Snell and other members of Parliament
serving the same purpose as the
speeches of the King, the Prime Min
ister and the Indian Princes at the
opening of the larger Indian Round-
Table Conference at St. James’ Palace.
The spirit of these speeches permeated
the labors of the negotiations to the
very last and largely determined the
accomplished results.
The first plenary session of this
Palestine Round-Table Conference was
held on the day following the great
debate, on November 18th, at the
foreign office. The Government was
represented by Mr. Arthur Henderson,
Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Tom
Shaw, Secretary for War, Mr. II. \
Alexander, the first Lord of the
Admiralty, Lord Passfield, Secretary
for the Colonies, and Mr. Craig Aitch-
inson, the Lord Advocate for Scotland,
who acted as legal adviser. The Jew
ish side was represented by Dr. Chaim
Weizmann, the former president and
leader of the Zionist Organization. Mr.
Harry Sacher and Professor
Brodetsky, members of the
Executive, Mr. D’Avigdor Goldsmith of
the British section of the Jewish
Agency, and Professor Harold J. I aski,
who represented the American Zi Lists
As at the Indian Conference at St.
James’ the majority of the population
of the country concerned—in this ase
the Arabs—was not represented, which
doubtless constituted the chief weak
ness of this as of the larger gatl ring
The chairman and the leading r
of the negotiations was Mr. : * uir
Henderson, the Foreign Seen try
Although the letter to Dr. W ei ann
is signed by the Prime Minister
ly in order to invest it with g r • tel "
political prestige), the matter a-
as the spirit of the entire doc ent
emanate from Mr. Henderson,
is the Foreign Secretary who v