The Manchester Guardian reported today that the Essener National Zeitung, Field Marshal Goering’s newspaper, has published a purported facsimile of a confidential letter from former Colonial Secretary William Ormsby-Gore to former Palestine High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope.
The letter, written in hand and dated Sept. 1, 1936, mentions an interview between Mr. Ormsby-Gore, who is now Lord Harlech, and Dr. Chaim Weizmann. It also contains a denunciation of the exiled ex-Mufti of Jerusalem that is virtually the same as remarks made by the Colonial Secretary to the House of Commons. The letter was allegedly supplied to the Goering newspaper by its Cairo correspondent who said he had obtained it from the Palestine Arab delegates following their return from the London conferences. The Manchester Guardian comments that it is “most remarkable that such a private letter should have come into the hands of the Arab extremists.”
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