Moussa Kazim Pasha, the President of the Palestine Arab Executive, who had tendered his resignation on the ground of old age and ill-health, had yielded to the insistence of the Palestine Arab Executive and has withdrawn his resignation One of the reasons for his decision to retain office, he has said, is that the Jews had alleged that his resignation meant a split in the Arab ranks.
The Palestine Arab Executive is now engaged in preparing its memorandum in reply to Mr. MacDonald’s letter to Dr. Weizmann officially interpreting the Passfield White Paper, in order to submit it as the Arab view on the situation to the meeting of the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations opening in Geneva next month.
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