in the House of Commons tonight when Josiah Wedgewood, Laborite M.P., challenged Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, the Colonial Secretary, to explain why Transjordanian residents are permitted to enter Palestine without passports and without visas.
Transjordanian immigration into Palestine has been the object of much comment in Palestine recently because of the repressive measures employed by the administration against Jewish tourists and the sharp curtailment in Jewish immigration.
Cunliffe-Lister replied to Wedge-wood’s interpellation merely by stating that regulations permitting free Transjordanian immigration had recently been incorporated into the Palestine laws.
An attempt by Edward Doran, notorious anti-Semite, who was recently disavowed by his Conservative constituency, to make the House a forum for an anti-Semitic attack, was greeted with jeers of derision and laughter and was not even considered by the minister to whom it was addressed. Doran, asserting that Jews frequently purposely arrange bankruptcies and are “economic vultures picking on British flesh”, sought to elicit a response tending to place the government in the position of giving his libels consideration.
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