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Eras States Reported Agreed to Admit Jews to Palestine Pending Inquiry Group’s Findings

January 14, 1946
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The member states of the Arab League agreed informally, at a meeting last week, to comply with the British suggestion that 2,500 Jews be admitted into Palestine monthly, pending the findings of the Anglo-American inquiry committee Reuters reports today.

A correspondent of the British news agency, who has just returned from the Middle East, says that none of the Arab states, however, have, as yet, replied formally to the proposal for Jewish immigration, and are understood to be awaiting the results of conference with King Ibn Saud, who is in Cairo. The final decision, Reuters says, is believed to rest with the Arabian monarch, who must decide whether to agree with the Arab league or with the Palestine Higher Arab Committee, which has rejected the immigration proposal.

(Ibn Saud held discussions in Cairo today with a delegation of Palestine Arab leaders, headed by Jamal Husseini, who was recently released from British Internist in Southern Rhodesia. The King told them “the question of the Arabs and Palestine is a question of Islam – all Arab countries are my own.”)

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