PALESTINE ARABS
FURTHER AIMS STATED A MISSED OPPORTUNITY JERUSALEM, Jan. 14 Jamal A 1 Dusseini, president of one of the most powerful Arab parties, suggested to the Royal Commission today that the Arabs should be provisionally recognised as an independent nation, the power of the mandatory nation to bei limited to giving advice and assistance.
When Jamal observed that the Arabs had enjoyed Parliamentary representation _under the Turks, the chairman of the Commission, Earl Peel, rejoined: "Had you accepted the Legislative Council of 1923 it might have developed into the kiuci of institution you want."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22628, 16 January 1937, Page 11
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