The allegation that the Palestine Government blocked the way to Arab-Jewish parleys which was made by Mr. Ittamar Ben Avi, the editor of the “Doar Hayom”in his paper on Wednesday (reported in the J.T.A. Bulletin of the 24th. inst.) has caused a stir in Palestine Jewry, and the entire Hebrew press here has created a precedent to-day in quoting from the “Doar Hayom” the text which it gave of the letter addressed by the Chief Secretary to the Palestine Government, Mr. Young, to Dr. Weizmann telling him that the Government would not be responsible for his personal safety if he went to Trans jordan to see the Emir Abdullah.
The Government can sue the “Doar Hayom”, the Hebrew Labour daily “Davar” says, and thus prove that the information given by the paper is false; otherwise it must be condemned the world over for hypocrisy in talking airily of a Round Table Conference, while it is busy destroying the basis of an understanding.
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