EMPHATIC PROTEST BY IRAQ

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 266, 6 August 1937, Page 11

EMPHATIC PROTEST BY IRAQ

Palestine Proposals NOTE SENT TO MANDATES COMMISSION By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received August 5, 10.45 p.m.) Geneva, August 5. The Iraq Government has sent a Note to the League’s Mandates Commission emphatically protesting against the Royal Commission’s Palestine proposals. The Note describes the partition proposal as an injustice to the Arabs which Iraq could not view without alarm, and adds that the proposals are incompatible with the integral independence of Palestine and hold out no hope of a permanent settlement. “Such hope depends on the recognition of an integral and independent Palestine in which the Jews accept once and for all a position of minority,” the Note states. ZIONIST CONGRESS Plan Not Acceptable Zurich, August 4. The present Palestine plan was declared unacceptable by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain, at the Zionist Congress in announcing a resolution which is to be introduced empowering the executive to negotiate with the British Government only providing that the project enables Jews in Palestine to live their own independent national lives and helps to solve Jewish problems in different countries.