The Arab press in Palestine today carries articles supporting the protests of the four Arab countries against the Palestine resolution now before the United Stated Congress.
The Falastin, a leading Arab newspaper, criticizes Congress for “interfering in a matter which Arab states alone should solve.” It likens the hearings on Palestine at the House Committee for Foreign Affairs with “Egyptian action in the Philippines or internal American affairs.” and charges Congress with doing a disservice to the Allied cause and world unity.
Al Difaa, another Arab daily, says that with the protests of the four Arab countries to Washington, “the Palestine case emerged from its narrow confines to broader international arenas.”
No summary or detailed description of the Egyptian protest has so far been published either in Palestine or in Egypt. In connection with the decision of the Egyptian government to ask Britain to release interned Palestine Arab leaders in order to enable them to participate in the Cairo talks for pan-Arab unity, it was learned here today that two members of the Husseini group, of which the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem was the leader, are still interned on a British island. One of them, it was recently announced in the House of Commons, will never be permitted to return to Palestine.
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