THE NEW YORK TI:\lES, WEDNESDA \, :.\IAY 1, 19-¼6. C+ 15 TEXT OF REPORT OF BRITISH-U. S. INQUIRY ON PALESTINE Fn1loirinq is the tr,xt of /hp report of thB Anglo-American ways in which help can be given. HOW LAND DEALS ARE LIMITED IN PALESTINE National Home, created in conse-lestine. Such a pottcy, 1mggested by war development; we could wish • . Those who have opposed the ad• quence of the Balfour Declaration. the Peel Commission, is consistent that means might be found for Comm1ftef' of Inqmry 011 problem,, of ,le11•s 1n Europe and Pales- mission of these unfortunate peo- r.======::;;:;===::::::;::;;re==::::::::::::=:::::=:;:;::;::;::;;:;::;::;:;::;:;::;::;:;::;::;::;:;::;::;:;:, Some may think that that declara• with their proposed solution, par- projects of larger range and on a tine, released last night: pie into Palestine should know that f~~HI tion was wrong and should not tition, but scarcely with that put more ambitious scale; but we rec• we have fully considered all that have been made; some that it was forward by us. ognize that until political peace l1 they have put before us. We hope a conception on a grand scale and The leases granted by the • eWish restored there is great difficulty in Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry that they will look upon the situ- that effect can be given to one of National Fund contain a provision raising the necessary funds wheth- ation again, that they will appre- jjw,~--~i the most daring and significant that no labor other than JeWish er from revenue or borrowing. Report to ciate the consideration~ which have colonization plans in history. Con- shall be employed by the lessee on Meanwhile it ls suggested that led us to our conclusion, and that ~~~~~ troversy as to which view is right or about or in conection with the the Government should acquire ThP Unitt>d States His :\fa_jesty's Go\ernment above all, if they cannot see their is fruitless. The national home is land subject to the lease, and a pow~rs. at present tacking, to in• Go~ernmPnt in the Unit. d Kingdom way to help, at least they will not ~~~~ '/it,~~fl there. Its roots are deep in the further provision that a sublease vesbgate fully the extent of the L,111.~a n ne., Su·itzerland, make the position of these suffer- soil of Palestine. It cannot be ar- shall contain similar terms. country's water resources, to con• AP[il 20, 1946. ers more difficult. gued ou! of existence; neither can As we have said, we are op- trol the use of un~erground water Principles of Government: t~e achievements of the Jewish posed to such discrimination. We ~i to determine rights to surface N A b N h St pwneers. appreciate that one of the reasons w er. PREFACE o ra , o •J ew1s · a t e The Government of Palestme m f h . to We doubt whether Palestine can We ¼ere appointed by the Gov-' tion m1der paragraph 2 above, Recommendat· N 3 I d having regard to the well-being of or sue prov1s1ons _wa~ .secure expand its economy to the full 1011 0 ~rnment~ of the United States and by remedial action in the Eu- . • • n or er all the eo le of Palestine cannot employment for Jewish ~igrants having regard to its limited nat~ or the Umted Kingdom as a joint1 ropean countries in que~tion or to dISJ?OSe, once and for all, of the i¥§~~~ -l>lt:::ai,,,: · & p t t f l on the 1~nd· _We_ ~o not think tl_lat ural resources without a full and body of _Amer_ican and Brit_i~h I by _the provision of facilities for exclusive_ claims of Jews_and Arabs ~~fi~~ ofe t1::e er~s :1a~io!~ I\r~!n~ that obJect _Justif!es the r~tention free Interchange of goods and ■ erv• membershtp, with the following em1gr8:hon to. and settlement m t? Palestine, we regard it as essen- not i nore the ic~ieYements of the of such sbpulabo~s which are ices with neighboring countries. In Terms of Reference: countnes outside Europe. tial t~at a cl~ar statement of the .-'='-!..!7'-.!-.!..!..!,I ..,~"~~.;~[',j t g t f t N G harmful to cooperat1on and under- some respects indeed as in cer- ·t· J · followmg prmc1ples should be 1as quar er O a cen ury. 0 ov-,sta d' g b t e Arab and Jew ' ' (1 l T o examine po_l I ica' economic The Governments urged upon us made· ernment o! Palestine doing its n m e "'. en . tain projects involving water sup- and social _cond1tions in Pales- the need for the utmost expedition · duty to the people of that land can L~nd acquired by the Jewish ply, their active collaboration ii tine as the)_ bear up_on t~e prob- in dealing with the subjects com- _(Il That Jew shall not dominate --=,.;:.-;....;;=:.ii fail to do its best not only to main- National Fund or for a Wa9f by indispensable to full development !em of Jewish 1mm1grat1on and mitted to us for investigation, and A1ab_ and Arab shall not dominate jtain the national home but also to the Su))'l'e~e Moslem Counc1l be- on an economic basis. settlement therem and the w~ll- requested to be furnished with our J_ew m Palestm_e. (~IJ Th~t Pales- foster its roper development and comes malienable. The Peel Com- The removal of Article 18 of the hPmg of the peoples now hvmg Report within one hundred and tme shall be neither a Jewish state ~==~~~~~~'-!) h d 1 t t , m1ss1on expressed the view in its mandate would clear the way to therem. twenty days of the mceplion of nor an Arab state. (III) That the sue . evelopmen. mut?' m our report (Chapter IX paragraph 80) those comprehensive tariff and (2 1 T o examine· the pos,_·t· t0n_ ofthe our inquiry.. form of gove. rnmen t u 1t·1ma t e Iy t o =---~====""· view• mvo ve .1mnugra 10n. that caution. on the' part of the trade agreements, not confl!ctmg.. .Je"'s 1'1 those countries m En-1 We assembled in Washington on be _established, shall, under mter- The well-bemg of all the people Government in disposing of state with any international obligations rope whe1e lhey have been the F d 4th J 916 db nat10nal guarantees, fully protect of Palestme, be they Jews, Arabs domam to these bodies was des1r- that might be accepted by the victims of Nazi and Fa~cist ~er- g;; ~~~ publi~n~:srii~ ~ ; t~e tot and p1eserve the _interests ln the or neither,_ must be t~e govern_ing able. The situation required watch- mandatory or trustee, which could 1 1 1 11 01 5 11ecut10n, and ~he pract1cal110wmg Monday. We sailed from Holy Land of Chnst~ndom and or eon ider~tion, We reJeet the view ing. It would not be to the inter- ultimately lead to something like measures ta~en 01 contem))lated 1the Umted States on lSth January the Moslem and Jewish faiths. __,""'"'--'''·'" ~hat ~!lei~ shal_l be no further Je_w- ests of the inhabitants of Palestine a customs union-an objective al- to be taken m t~ose countnes _to and resumed our public sessions m Thus Palestine ~ust ultimately is~ immigration . mto Pales~me if too large a proportion of the land ready m mind as between the aur• 1 ~nable them to live free f~om dis- London on 25th January. We left b~come a st!'-te wluch guards the J wit~out Arab ac~mes~ence, a " ew should become inalienable, whether rounding countries of the Arab cr1mmation and oppression ~nd for Euro e on 4th and 5th Febru- nghts and mterests of 1oslems, wh•~h ":'ould result m the Arab held by one organization or an- League. to make e_stima~es of those y,ho P . _ Jews and Christians alike and ac- ~ommatmg the Jew. We also re- other. • wish or will be impelled by their ary, and• working in subeommit cords to the mhabitants as a ~ Ject the insistent Jewish demand . Educahon c~nd1tions to m1grat1; to Pal~s- tees, proceeded to our mvestlga: whole, the fullest measure 'or self- that forced Jewish immigration In the small, th1~kly populated tme or other countnes outside tions m Germany, Poland, Czecho . I must d . d to country of Palestme, with its Recommendation No. 9. We rec• E•iro e .slovakia, Austria, Italy and government cons1sten~ with the ,.,.,,,..,-.,,.,,,A procee _apace m 0 r _er rapidly increasing population, it ls ommend that, in the interests of ph. lh . f Greece. On 28th February we flew three paran,ount prmc1ples aet § pro~uce as _qu_1ckly as possible a in the mterest of Jews and Arabs the conciliation of the two people& (3) T o ear e views o compe• . t forth above Jewish maJority and a Jewtsh d 1 t tent wltne~ses and to consult to Cairo and, after sessions here, · f'i St t Th 11 b . f th J a.like that all land should be de- an of genera lmprovemen of the representati~e Arabs and Jews reached Jerusalem on 6th March. Comment. Throughout the long l,Y a e. t we e:g d tehw~ veloped and put to the fuJJest pos- Arab standard of hvmg, the edu- t ~ 8 b ~ i80 on the problems of Palestine as In Palestine, our sessions were in• and bloody struggle of Jew and muS no .e ~ or ma E' a sible use.