POLICY IN PALESTINE
BRITISH VACILLATION (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (“Times” Cables) LONDON. 20th February. The Jerusalem correspondent of “The Times” states that Arab dissatisfaction with the new interpretation of the Palestine report is growing in bitterness. Political organisations throughout the country are protesting, and proposing demonstrations in Palestine, Transiordania, and Syria. The Moslem and Christian Association of Jaffa, in a letter to the High Commissioner, declares that “The White Paper only Aimed to gain the sympathy of Indians attending the Round Table Conference in London. When that was closed the document was torn up.” The association threatens to boycott co-operation. A Jewish newspaper declares that in (vic\v of ten years’ experience of British vacillation the' present Arab antagonism will merely produce a new anti-Zionist version of the White Paper.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 23 February 1931, Page 5
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