The French Report on the development of Palestine, released by the Colonial Office last week after an eighteen months’ delay, has been rejected by the Arab Executive as well as by the Jewish Agency for Palestine, it is learned here. The Arab Executive, in a memorandum submitted to the Palestine Government last March, rejected the report on two grounds, according to Jamaal Husseini, secretary of the executive. The first ground, he said, was because the report was based on the letter of Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald to Dr. Chaim Weizmann in 1931, in which the British premier acknowledged the obligation of the British Government to falicitate Jewish settlement of Palestine. The second reason was the failure of the report to propose complete prohibition of immigration and the sale of land.
However, the two million pound loan proposal made by Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, the Colonial Secretary, in the House of Commons Friday, whereby the Arab population would be greatly benefitted, may alter the situation. The Arab Executive is meeting shortly to discuss this matter.
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