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Gouty peers could but snort their sympathy when Lord Strickland solemnly assured the House that on his present visit to London he has been unable to get a word with his chief: the Laborite Secretary of State for the Colonies, Baron Passneld of Passfield Corner...
Bowlegged little Baron Passfield was present during the harangue. Unruffled, foxy, he made a remarkable excuse. He said that Roman Catholic feeling in Malta runs so high that he did not want to receive Baron Strickland without also receiving Roman Catholic dignitaries, and he did not want to receive them. Oddly enough Lord Strickland is himself a Roman Catholic-one who, as His Majesty's Prime Minister, puts King and Country first...
...Hoover Administration would have done, the MacDonald Government has decided to send a commission to Malta, and Lord Passfield assured Lord Strickland last week that this commission will very soon...
...unjustified vacillation. ... I assure your Excellency that Premier MacDonald . . . has ruined hope of a policy of co-operation between Arabs and Jews, if there existed such a hope, and has rendered the possibility of understanding between the two parties absolutely impossible. ... He has not attached more value to [the Passfield Declaration] than to 'a scrap of paper...
...rushing to defend Scot MacDonald against the charge of deliberate perfidy his friends stubbed their toes upon these points: 1) the Passfield Declaration was issued just before the Indian Round Table Conference with its immense Mohammedan contingent convened in London (TIME, Nov. 24, et seq.); 2) so long as the Conference sat, not all the Jews in Christendom could move Mr. MacDonald by their incessant pleas, threats, demands; 3) so soon as the Indian Conference adjourned and its Mohammedan members returned to India and reported favorably, just so soon did Scot MacDonald yield to the Jews...