Following inquiries by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency the Zionist Executive emphatically denied that either Dr. Weizmann or any other member of the Executive had directly approached the Arab delegation here for negotiations as was reported from Jerusalem. The Executive also declared that it had not made any suggestion of negotiations through the Colonial Office and says it considers the report of negotiations as “a gross untruth.”
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