Palestine Arab nationalists made it known today that they wanted American support of the British Government’s White Paper of 1939 which “freezes” the Jewish population of Palestine as of March, 1944.
Their desire was expressed in a memorandum signed by former leaders of the outlawed Arab Higher Committee, which had been disbanded in 1937 as responsible for Arab disorders, addressed to Prime Minister Nuri Pasha es-Said of Iraq.
The memorandum stated the Palestine Arab nationalists’ willingness to support the forthcoming Cairo conference on formation of an Arab federation on condition that the British and United States governments jointly undertake to give effect to the White Paper, under which 75,000 Jews were to be admitted to Palestine in the five-year period expiring next March, with any further immigration subject to Arab approval. All but 29,000 of this quota have already entered Palestine.
Signatories of the memorandum, which was handed to the Iraqi Consul here for transmission to Nuri Pasha, include Auni Bey Abdul Hadi, extremist leader who had been exiled in 1937 and returned two years later, Ahmed Hilmi Pasha, and Rashid Saji Brahmin.
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