A boycott of the forthcoming Palestine conference would be equivalent to “running away from the battlefield,” Moshe Shertok, head of the political department of the Jewish Agency, declared today. Asserting there was no question of boycotting the talks, which are expected to open here the week of Feb. 6, Mr. Shertok told a meeting of the Poale-Zion, laborite Zionist organization, that he regarded them as an opportunity to proclaim Jewish rights.
A Cabinet subcommittee has prepared a plan to impose upon the Jews and Arabs if no agreement is reached in the forthcoming conferences on Palestine, it was reported by the press bureau of the New Zionist Organization. The plan is understood to provide for establishment of Jewish and Arab cantons having wide local government powers to control immigration into their territories, under the authority of a central government in which the Mandatory Power would retain the final right of veto. Subject to these conditions, the committee is understood to be prepared to consider joining Palestine to the Trans-Jordan.
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