The new Government letter interpreting Palestine policy has destroyed every vestige of respect which the Arabs had retained for the British Government, says a proclamation issued to-day by the Palestine Arab Executive. It is now clear that the Government has contradicted itself, calling black white and vice versa, the proclamation goes on, concluding with an appeal to all Eastern peoples, especially the Arabs everywhere, to remember the plight of the Palestine Arabs and to mete out to the Jews the same treatment that they mete out to the Arabs, to boycott Jewish products in the same way as the Jews boycott Arab labour, and to fight against Jewish oppression. The White Paper of October 1930, the proclamation alleges, was issued by the British Government in order to win over the Indian Moslem delegates at the time of the Indian Round Table Conference, and now that the Conference is over the White Paper has been torn to pieces, and the promises made to the Palestine Arabs are repudiated in favour of the Jews.
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