(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
A suggestion that the Palestine-Arab leaders send another delegation to Lord Plumer, the High Commissioner, or to the London Government, to present the Arab claims, was made by “Merat Ul Sherk,” the Arab newspaper.
The newspaper published a letter from a prominent Arab resident in the United States of America to Sheik Solimon Alfaruk. The writer of the letter claims that “the Palestine-Arab cause has many supporters in America” and that many members of the United States Congress have promised to assist the Arab movement.
The “Merat Ul Sherk” further publishes a sensational report with regard to the results achieved by the last Arab delegation to London. It is declared that at that time the British Government had proposed to the Palestine-Arab delegation to create in Palestine an immigration control board, to be composed of five Arabs and one Jew, with a fixed maximum of annual Jewish immigration of 3,000 persons, Should it be found that Palestine could not absorb this number, the immigration control board would have the right of suspending all immigration.
The paper complains that the Arab delegation to London submitted no report of its activities, and the fact has now come to light that Naj Tewfik Effendi Hamad, a member of the delegation, was the principal opponent to accepting this offer. The result is that Jewish immigration to Palestine for the past five years has been not 15,000, but 80,000, the paper states.
The Arab organ, however, expresses doubt as to whether the American Government would interfere in Palestine affairs. “Such interference would never be tolerated by the British Government,” the paper says.
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