The eighteenth anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, which it was expected the Arabs would utilize for a strike and other demonstrations, passed quietly today.
The only meeting of any size was held at Nablus with a few Arab leaders attending. Even the Arab press, which usually marks the occasion with severe editorial attacks against the declaration by which England promised Palestine as a Jewish national home, was silent.
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