Dr. Drummond Shiels, the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, and Mr. Mark Young, the Chief Secretary to the Palestine Government, arrived here to-day for the meeting of the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations, which was opened last week, in order to represent the British Government during the Commission’s examination of Palestine administration, which begins to-morrow.
The Mandates Commission will probably during its examination of the Palestine White Paper and Mr. MacDonald’s letter of authoritative interpretation deal also with the question of a Legislative Council for Palestine, the J.T.A. representative here learns.
The petition submitted to the Mandates Commission by the Palestine Arab Executive has arrived here. It consists of the printed memorandum on the White Paper prepared on behalf of the Palestine Arab Executive by Auni Bey Abdul Hadi, and a covering letter signed by Moussa Kazim Pasha, the President of the Palestine Arab Executive. M. Palacios has been appointed as the member of the Commission to act as Rapporteur on this petition.
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