A challenge to Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald to publish a contour map of Palestine showing the boundaries of the land act zones together with his statements describing the extent of the zones printed against it, was made today by prof. L.B. Namier, former political secretary of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, in a letter published by the Manchester Guardian.
Namier accused MacDonald of misleading the House of Commons with regard to the extent of the prohibited and restricted areas and the extent of the displacement of Arabs by Jewish purchases. He also charged that MacDonald had distorted quotations from a letter of protest to High Comnissioner Sir Harold Alfred MacMichael by Devid Ben Gurion, Jewish Agency chairman.
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