The Palestine Inquiry Commission met no hostility during its investigations, but it did encounter Arab demonstrations all the way down, meeting delegations at every station that carried black banners with the inscription, “Down with the Balfour Declaration,” Hopkin Morris, a member of the Commission, told the “Manchester Guardian.”
Mr. Morris said that the demonstrations everywhere were by the Arabs only. In response to a question as to whether the intensity of the antagonism between Jews and Arabs shows signs of diminishing, he replied, “I don’t know that it does. It is said that the Arabs are sending a deputation to England, though I think they gave us enough evidence. There are only rumors about this deputation, and I can say nothing about its character, but I suppose it would be something similar to the delegation sent in 1922 to see Winston Churchill.”
It is not yet certain here whether the Commission’s sittings in London will be private or public.
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