12 JANUARY 1945, Page 12

THE PALESTINE MANDATE

Eustace Gordon writes: " The Jew says, logically enough, that, under the mandate, Britain assumed the obligation of making the establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine possible. This he interprets to mean that Palestine should become a Jewish Commonwealth." I hope the words " logically enough " will not associate themselves in the minds of any of your readers with the second sentence, for the interpre- tation by the Zionist of the words " national home " (no capital letters in the Declaration itself) into " Jewish Commonwealth " has no ground