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PALESTINE TALKS IN LONDON Indications Are For Breakdown DELEGATES EXPECTED TO BE DISMISSED Government Likely To Impose Own Plan By Telegraph.— Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received February 22, 1 a.m.). LONDON. February 21. The “News Chronicle” says that indications are for a breakdown of the Palestine talks. It is practically inevitable that the Government will dismiss the delegates shortly and impose its own plan. The situation approached a climax last night when a spokesman for Egypt, Iraq. Saudi-Arabia, Transjordan and the Y etnen submitted a unanimous memorandum announcing a united front with the Palestinian Arabs. It is stated that the remainder of the Arab world advised the Palestinian. Arabs to accept nothing less than independent sovereign status.
The memorandum is being submitted to Mr.’ Chamberlain. The British and Jewish delegates also reached a stalemate and the talks were adjourtfed indefinitely. The Jews rejected suggestions for the restriction of immigration and land sales, maintaining that this would mean permanent minority status. They demanded immigration of an equal economic absorptive capacity. The “News Chronicle’’ adds that some observers find that the Government made a tactical error in inviting the Arabs, thereby uniting them, instead of seeking the services of a mediator.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 127, 22 February 1939, Page 6
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