The Jewish delegates who will attend tomorrow’s three-sided meeting in St. James Palace are Dr. Chaim Weizmann, David Ben Gurion, Moshe Shertok, Prof. Selig Brodetsky, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Lord Reading and Lord Bearsted. Premier Nuri Pasha es-Said and Foreign Minister Tewfik es-Suwaidy of Iraq will be among the Arabs present. It was stressed tonight that the meeting would be entirely informal, that the delegates would attend as individuals and that the presence of representatives of Arab states did not imply recognition of the Jewish Agency nor mean that the conference had so far established any grounds for bringing both sides closer.
British representatives met the Arab delegations today and continued discussion of the immigration problem for two hours. It was understood that Colonial Secretary MacDonald replied at length to the demand of Jamal el Husseini, leader of the Palestine Arab extremists, for complete stoppage of Jewish immigration, refuting several of Husseini’s assertions and stating that complete prohibition of Jewish entry was impossible. Mr. MacDonald was also understood to have criticized more of Husseini’s economic arguments. The question of restriction of Jewish land buying was also discussed.
Before the conclusion of the meeting, the Palestine Arabs asked for time to prepare a reply to Mr. MacDonald, which will be given at the next meeting on Saturday morning. Nuri Pasha will leave for Baghdad on Saturday and Tewfik es-Suwaidy will remain for the duration of the conferences. During this afternoon’s meeting Ragheb Bey Nashashibi, leader of the Palestine Arab moderates, was called out of the conference room and was given a telegram stating that his cousin, Zudhina Nashashibi, 64, had been shot and critically wounded by terrorists in Jerusalem today. He was understood to have informed Mr. MacDonald and Prince Abdul Moneim of Egypt of the contents of the message.
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