Word: loefgren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swede on Palestine. In Stockholm Judge Loefgren, chairman of the League of Nations Wailing Wall Commission, accused Jews of forgetting Britain's promises to the non-Jewish population of Palestine. "It may be," he declared, "that two promises equally valid are simultaneously impossible of fulfillment." (i.e. Britain may have promised both Jews and Arabs more than she can give them both at once...
Concluded Judge Loefgren: "We must not be astonished if the [British Labor] Government . . . tries to find a solution or an interpretation to make both ends meet. . . . Neither party [Jewish or Arab] is satisfied . . . the government has struck the right note in trying to mete out justice...
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