That article, which concerns entrusting " tutelage " of colonies formerly under German and Turkish sovereignty to " advanced nations " with specific regard to " [ c ] ommunities formerly belonging to the Turkish Empire " that they " have reached a stage of development where their existence as independent nations can be provisionally recognised subject to the rendering of administrative advice and assistance by a Mandatory until such time as they are able to stand alone . " Throughout the period of the Mandate, Palestinian Arab leaders cited this as proving their assertion that the British were obliged under the terms of the Mandate to facilitate the eventual creation of an independent Arab state in Palestine.
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In March 1930, Lord Passfield, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, had written a Cabinet Paper which said : In the Balfour Declaration there is no suggestion that the Jews should be accorded a special or favoured position in Palestine as compared with the Arab inhabitants of the country, or that the claims of Palestinians to enjoy self-government ( subject to the rendering of administrative advice and assistance by a Mandatory as foreshadowed in Article XXII of the Covenant ) should be curtailed in order to facilitate the establishment in Palestine of a National Home for the Jewish people . " . . . Zionist leaders have not concealed and do not conceal their opposition to the grant of any measure of self-government to the people of Palestine either now or for many years to come.
