The Palestine Arab Higher Committee will call on High Commissioner Sir Alan Cunningham this evening and tender its formal rejection of the High Commissioner’s request that it agree to the admission to Palestine of 1,500 Jews monthly, pending the findings of the Anglo-American inquiry committee, it was reported today in a Jerusalem dispatch to the Evening Standard. The report says that the Arabs will give as one of the main reason for their action, the “recent terror organized by Jews in Palestine.”
In an interview here today with a Reuter correspondent, Riad el Solh, former premier of Lebanon and a delegate of that country to the UNO, opposed the idea of a Greater Syria, which would embrace Syria, Labanon, Transjordan and Palestine, maintaining that the Arab League has guaranteed the independence of its member states. He said that the Arab states were satisfied with their accomplishments, so far, at the UNO meeting, and were now concentrating on obtaining a seat for one of the Arab nations on the Trusteeship Council.
Seven hundred and forty delegates representing 32,000 members are expected to attend the 45th annual conference of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain, which will be held here Jan. 26-28, it was announced today. Speakers will include Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Nahum Goldmann, and Professor Selig Brodetaky.
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