A MOVEMENT FOR AN ARAB-JEWISH RAPPROCHEMENT TO AVOID PROPOSED PARTITION OF THE HOLY LAND IS MAKING RAPID STRIDES IN PALESTINE, THE JERUSALEM CORRESPONDENT OF THE TIMES OF LONDON DECLARES IN A DISPATCH TODAY.
CONSIDERABLE IMPETUS HAS BEEN GIVEN THE MOVEMENT BY THE PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES, THE CORRESPONDENT ASSERTS, AND BY THE LETTER OF SIR HENRY MACMAHON, FORMER BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR EGYPT, DENYING THAT PALESTINE WAS INCLUDED IN HIS 1915 PLEDGE TO THE ARABS.
AS A RESULT OF THE DEBATES AND THE LETTER PALESTINIAN JEWS FEEL THE CASE AGAINST PARTITION HAS BEEN STRENGTHENED, THE WRITER REPORTS.
THE EFFECT ON THE ARABS, HE SAYS, HAS BEEN TO REDUCE TENSION CREATED BY FEAR OF PARTITION AND TO TURN THEIR MINDS IN THE DIRECTION OF NEGOTIATIONS FOR AN AGREEMENT WITH THE JEWS WHICH WOULD OBVIATE IT.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ATMOSPHERE FAVORABLE FOR SUCH DISCUSSIONS HAS BEEN EXTRAORDINARILY RAPID, ACCORDING TO THE CORRESPONDENT, WHO REPORTS THERE IS NOW TALK IN ALL QUARTERS OF A MEANS TO LAUNCH THEM SUCCESSFULLY.
THE DESIRABILITY OF NEUTRAL MEDIATORS IS RECOGNIZED, HE WRITES, AND THE NAME OF NURI PASHA ES-SAID, IRAQI STATESMAN WHO FIGURED IN EFFORTS TO HALT THE 1936 DISORDERS, IS MUCH TO THE FORE.
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