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Pay Station JA 9595 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