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Cunliffe-lister Marvels at Palestine Prosperity

April 16, 1933
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Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, visited the municipality of Jaffa. The Arab leaders were absent.

The members of the Council of the Jaffa Municipality and the Mayor submitted the demand to Cunliffe-Lister that a Legislative Council be introduced in Palestine.

Cunliffe-Lister afterwards visited Rishon-le-Zion and Rehoboth. “If England only were as flourishing as Palestime,” he remarked during his visit. He then visited the Tel-Aviv municipality. Mayor Dizengoff submitted to him a memorandum regarding the needs of Tel-Aviv. The chief Rabbis of the Jewish community submitted another memorandum in reference to the Sabbath.

The Under-Secretary also received the Anglican Bishop as well as the Latin Orthodox patriarchs.

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