Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-05-12 | Page 9 | Ask Samuel to Rule Palestine

RULE PALESTINE U. S. Supreme Justice Bran-i Bran-i deis Once Considered as Commissioner LONDON, May 32. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) Prior to the granting rn Civnnt RrilMin rf thn monilnln frn Palestine, .Louis iJ. lirandeis, associate justice of the supreme courL of the! United Slates, and the Right Hon. Herbert L. Samuel, former secretary of state for home affairs, were most favored for the post of high commissioner, commis-sioner, according to information received re-ceived by The Associated Press. But, Great Britain having been made the mandatory power virtually eliminated consideration of the American Jurist j ana an otticiai announcement of the appointment of Mr. Samuel is regarded as assured within a few days. Mr. Samuel recently returned from a three months' tour of Palestine, whore as official commissioner of the British government he was delegated to investigate and report on financial, economic and other considerations pei-taining pei-taining to the transition of Palestine from military to civil control. A romantic sidelight to Samuel's, prospective appointment as high commissioner com-missioner to Palestine, is the engagement engage-ment of, his son Edwin to Hadassah Grazovsky, of Jaffa, whom he met while srevlng as a lieutenant in a British regiment in Palestine. oo