The Arab Christians today became the first Palestine group to formally agree to participate in the recently proposed representative legislative council. They decided to submit a memorandum to High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope announcing their intention of accepting the three council seats allotted them.
The Moslem Arabs, entitled to eleven seats, have withheld reply to the High Commissioner’s proposal, while the Jews, who would have seven seats, have replied that they are unalterably opposed to immediate establishment of the council on the ground it would tend to fix their status as a minority in the Holy Land.
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