A “Green Book” formulating Arab proposals for the solution of the Palestine problem on the basis of special rights for Jews and Christians there was submitted in Cairo to Richard G. Casey, British Minister for the Middle East, it was disclosed today by the publication “Great Britain and the East” which is close to the Colonial Office.
The same publication reveals that some of the Palestine Arabs who participated in the British-Arab conference on Palestine held in St. James Palace in London in 1938 are likely to be chosen as representatives to the Cairo parleys on the formation of a pan-Arab federation. In this connection it was learned reliably here today that the Palestine Government intends to repatriate from Rhodesia the extremist Arab leader Jamal Husseini, a relative of the ex-Mufti and one of his most active collaborators, who was officially held responsible for the Palestine riots in 1936 and 1937.
Followers of Husseini, it was revealed, insist that the delegation of Palestine Arabs to the Cairo conference be composed on the same basis as the Arab delegation to the British-Arab talks on Palestine in London. They contend that they are unable to nominate delegates to Cairo as long as their leaders are in exile. Jamal Husseini was one of the Arab leaders who accompanied the ex-Mufti – who subsequently fled to Germany – to Syria and Iraq, where he participated in the political intrigues which led to the Rashid Ali pro-Axis revolt in the latter country in June, 1940.
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