That the Palestine Arabs, with little enough reason, hope for sudden constitutional changes, is revealed by an article in the “Elakdam,” a paper in Jaffa, which is very close to the Wafd, the Egyptian Nationalist Party.
On the basis of recent British concessions to Egypt and Iraq, the Jaffa paper predicts home rule for Palestine, including a parliament and a share in the administration. It reprints, too, the yarn that the “London Times” correspondent in Cairo has arranged for a special train to Palestine to be ready in the event of the necessity for proceeding at short notice to Palestine on the report of a declaration of independence there.
Whatever constitutional changes are in the offing, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency can state on reliable authority that the Palestine government has not received any instructions to resume conversations with the Arabs, which had been suspended as a result of the riots. Both London and Jerusalem, but especially London, are likely to move very slowly, particularly after Premier MacDonald has undertaken to consider carefully the Balfour-Lloyd-Smuts proposal for an inquiry into the workings of the Mandate system.
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