In an interview with the Jerusalem correspondent of The Times, Fakhri bey Nashashibi, acting head of the Arab National Defense Party, warned that his party would boycott the London negotiations unless allotted 50 per cent membership in the Arab delegation. “If Britain recognizes persons designated by the ex-Mufti and ignores the existence of the important National Defense Party, she will be responsible for the consequences,” Nashashibi said in a cable to the Egyptian Premier Mohammed Pasha.
Leonard Stein, chairman of the executive committee of the Anglo-Jewish Association, in presenting to a meeting of the association the report of the Joint Foreign Committee of the association and the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said today: “All hope that the conference will achieve its purpose, although there is little prospect for it if it is approached in the intransigeant spirit prevailing in some quarters. I believe that more responsible counsels will prevail, and on the Arab as well as the Jewish side there will be found a more genuine desire for accommodation and doing justice to the vital interests of both. The Jewish Agency will enter the conference with the sincere desire to be helpful and constructive.”
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