A resolution condemning the Palestine land act as harmful to Jewish colonization and Arab economic development and strengthening separatist tendencies was adopted today at a meeting of the League for Arab-Jewish Rapprochement and Understanding. Among participants of the meeting was Mrs. Rose Jacobs, American member of the Jewish Agency Executive.
The resolution also urged a solution of the Palestine problem on the basis of an Arab-Jewish understanding including a land formula. Measures to secure racial cooperation in daily life were also discussed by the meeting.
The recent order of the High Commissioner permitting certain land transfers to non-Arabs in the “prohibited” zone covers 58 villages, including the Christian German settlements of Waldheim and Wilhelma.
The transfers are permitted in two classes: (1) Relative to lands registered for non-Arabs before May 18, 1939; (2) Transfers in execution of judgments and orders of the courts, chief execution officer and land settlement officer in satisfaction of a mortgage executed and registered before May 18, 1939, or delivered before Feb. 28, 1940.
Meanwhile, the Appeals Court has given the Keren Kayemeth (Jewish National Fund) leave to appeal to the Privy Council against the land settlement officer’s decision, confirmed by the District Appeals Court, holding that Nazareth Arabs have grazing rights in the King George Forest, which is owned by the Keren Kayemeth.
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