Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald advised the House of Commons today that Palestine Arab leaders interned in the Seychelles Islands would be released as soon as transportation for them was arranged if their services were desired for the London parleys on Palestine and they would then be permitted to go anywhere except to Palestine. Invitations to the parleys have been accepted by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Transjordan, Iraq and by the Jewish Agency for Palestine, He reported.
The Colonial Secretary was pressed by Major Clement Attlee and other laborites seeking to ensure representation for the Arabs workers to explain the machinery by which the Palestine Arab representatives to the conferences would be chosen. He declared he was unable to make any further statement than to say that certain consultations were taking place and that if the Government intervened to nominate representatives, then no Palestine delegation would come. Communist Will Gallacher demanded that members of the dissolved Arab Supreme Committee be allowed to come to London.
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