PALESTINE CONFERENCES
BRITISH DELEGATION. [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, February 5. The Australian Associated Press states that the strongest endeavours failed to persuade the Palestine Arabs to sit down with the Jews at the conference table, hence the necessity for two separate conferences The views of one conference will be conveyed to the other by messengers. The British delegation, which will take part in the Palestine talk consists of the Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary, the Colonial Secretary, and Parliamentary Undersecretaries at the Foreign and Colonial Offices, but it is not expected that Mr Chamberlain or Lord Halifax will be in regular attendance after the opening meetings. The day to day work of the British delegation will fall principally on Mr Malcolm MacDonald', assisted by Mr R. A. Butler and Lord Dufferin and Ava. POLISH DEMONSTRATION. (Recd. February 6,2 p.rn.) WARSAW, February 5. On the eve of the London Conference, thousands of Jews in Poland took part in a mass demonstration, passing identical resolutions against the 'suspension of immigration to Palestine, and determining to resist the reduction pf Jews in Palestine to a minority basis.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 February 1939, Page 7
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