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Show BRITISH MANDATE REQUEST OPPOSED GENEVA May 13 (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press) The French und lt.il-Uui lt.il-Uui objections to immediate COnsld-oration COnsld-oration of the proposition to approve ' the British mandate for Palestine made It seem certain today that th-matter th-matter would be postponed until the next meeting of the council of the league of nations. Lord Balfour h id planned to ask the council today to ' put the mandate on tho calendar of the present sessions, but Leon Bourgeois Bour-geois for France and Marquis Im- ! perlall for Italy reported their gov-ernments gov-ernments unprepared to consent to approval of the mandate at this time. The French reason for objecting to lm mediate consideration was that' France wished to have the mandate for Syria approved at the same time, while the Italian reason was that the whole question had been complicated by tho fact that the treaty of Scv-t res had never been ratified. Both France and Italy complained Of the abruptness of the British pro-i posal, which had not allowed tlmoj for these governments to consider the, subject. |