WARNING BY ARABS

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 May 1946, Page 7

WARNING BY ARABS

“World Peace may be Endangered” PALESTINE AND EGYPT ISSUES (Recd. 11 a.tn.) CAIRO, May 30. The Kings, princes and presidents of. the, seven States of the Arab League issued a communique at the conclusion of the secret two-day talks, warning that further Jewish immigration to Palestine might endanger world peace and affirming their support of the Egyptian demands that Egypt must attain complete sovereignty and the British troops must be evacuated immediately. The communique stresses that the object of the conference was to demonstrate to the world Arab unity. The conference agreed that the Palestine question was - not only one for the Palestine Arabs but all Arabs, who should struggle to maintain it as an Arab country. The hope was expressed that Britain and America would not do anything in Palestine which would compel the Arab world to retaliate. , _ . , j 4 The meeting discussed Tripolitama and Cyrenaica and agreed to support all efforts of Arab countries to attain complete independence. According to a Jerusalem message Dr. Hussein Khalidi, leader of the Palestine Arab Reform Party and one of the main movers m the establishment of the Arab Higher Front, said: — Jamal Husseim, secretary of the Arab Higher Committee, maintains that Palestine should not be brought before the United Nations. I take it that his aim is not to embarrass Britain. We do not want to embarrass Britain or invoke Russian assistance, but because there are six Arab representatives on the United Nations and one on the Security Council we feel that by taking the case there we should get a fair hearing.” He added that while there was a split in tactics there were no major differences between Palestine Arabs over the national demands.

CHANGE OF MIND ARABS DECIDE ON WARNING ONLY DIPLOMATICDEVELOPMENTS (Rec. 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 30. Last minute diplomatic developments caused the rulers of the seven Arab states at the conference at Inchass (King Farouk’;s country estate) to change their minds about issuing a fighting communique, stating that it was intended to suppress the Jewish underground armies in Palestine, unless the British did so, states the Daily Mail’s Cairo correspondent. . . Saudi, the Arabian Minister in London, and Sheik Hafez Wahba arrived with unofficial information for the Arab rulers, that the British Government at the moment was not likely to adopt the Anglo-American tee’s recommendation that 100,ouu Jews be admitted to Palestine. The Arab rulers considered that the information received removed the necessity for the intended declaration.