Maj. Gen. Sir Edward Spears, former British minister to the Levant states, who is touring the Middle East as a guest of the Arab League, told a press conference here that the League had made such “outstanding gains” at the London Palestine conference that the Zionists were compelled to resort to terror in Palestine.
Spears, who is notoriously anti-Zionist, was criticized by the anti-government Wafdist newspaper “Peoples Voice,” which charged that his pro-Arab sentiments have been a clock to replace French influence in the Near East with British imperialism. It warned that the Arabs cannot expect “unbiased action” from Spears on the Palestine question.
(A Jewish Agency spokesman said today in Jerusalem that Gen. Spear’s remarks were “not calculated to reach a solution of the Palestine problem. If the problem is ever to be solved, at some stage there must be some sort of compromise based on mutual recognition of Jewish and Arab rights in this part of the world,” he continued. “Unless that recognition is arrived at, there will never be any solution. Therefore, Spear’s statement only serves to egg on the Arabs to remain obstinate and uncompromising and indirectly creates difficulties for the British themselves.”)
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