With Sir Boyd Merriman, Viscount Erleigh and other members of the counsel for the Jews preparing to leave for England Friday via Egypt and the members of the Inquiry Commission planning to leave Sunday, counsel for the Arabs will sum up today and Kenelm Preedy, government counsel, who had not intended to sum up, but will be obliged to speak as a result of Merriman’s attack, will sum up Friday.
While a leading legal authority here has characterized Commissioner Hopkin Morris’s interruption of Sir Boyd Merriman’s final address as a serious mistake, there seems to be a feeling that Merriman in arguing the state of mind of the government before, during and since the disturbances, was justified in questioning the conduct of government counsel, since Preedy was presumably acting under instructions from the government. The newspapers have not yet had time to comment on Tuesday’s closing incident.
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