HC Deb 14 March 1939 vol 345 cc225-6
Mr. T. Williams

(by Private Notice) asked the Prime Minister whether the Government would arrange that the new White Paper which will contain various British statements on the Balfour Declaration shall also include the terms of the telegram despatched in 1917 by the British Foreign Office to His Majesty's then Ambassador in Russia, Sir George Buchanan, wherein, among other things, it was declared that His Majesty's Government had decided to establish a Jewish State in Palestine.

Mr. Butler

My Noble Friend is giving consideration to this proposal.

Mr. Williams

May I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether, if certain papers referring to the Balfour Declaration are to be published in the form of a White Paper, it would not be in the interests of all parties in this House and outside that all similar documents should be published?

Mr. Butler

I appreciate the force of the hon. Member's point, and my right hon. Friend will give this matter consideration.

Mr. Benjamin Smith

Will he also publish the Allenby Report?