ARAB DEMANDS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 45, 23 February 1939, Page 14

ARAB DEMANDS

DECLINED BY BRITAIN

IMMIGRATION & LAND PROBLEMS

ALTERNATIVE PLANS

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.l (Received February 23, 2.20 p.m.), LONDON, February 22. The British and Arab delegations at the Palestine Conference met today, when it is believed the Colonial. Secretary stated that Britain was unable to accept the Arab demand for the immediate independence of Palestine and suggested some form of limited participation in the control of the country's affairs. It is understood that the Arab demand for the entire stoppage of Jewish immigration was refused in favour of a scheme of limited immigration. The Arab demand for the stoppage of sales of land was also turned down in favour of a proposal to divide the country into three sections, one the intensivelycultivated portion, where sales would be permitted, the second territory which was less cultivated, where sales would be regulated, and the third the remainder of the country, where sales would be psohibited. The first combined meeting of the Arab, Jew, and British delegations will be held at St. James's Palace tomorrow. It is stressed that it will be strictly informal, for the purpose of free discussion of general problems. Dr. Weizmann will lead the delegation from the Jewish Agency. The Foreign Secretary, the Colonial Secretary, and the Foreign Under-Secretary will also attend.