New plans are being formulated to establish a Jewish state 40 miles long and 10 miles wide, comprising the Sharon plain from Tel Aviv to Athlit, it is reported by Joseph M. Levy, near Eastern correspondent of the New York times, in a Jerusalem dispatch. He states that the rest of Palestine will be administered by the British under a revised mandate, with no Arab state to be established, because British authorities in Palestine believe that the Arabs are not yet fit for self-government.
The proposed Jewish state, as reported, would represent a substantial reduction of the boundaries proposed by the Peel Royal Commission, which suggested a state comprising about 2,500 square miles — most of the coastal plain, the Jezreel Valley, the Galilee and the upper waters of the Jordan.
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