The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem arrived in Geneva yesterday to place a direct appeal for the nullification of the Balfour Declaration before the League of Nations, according to a cablegram published in yesterday’s New York World. He informed the World’s correspondent that the future policy of the Arab Executive in Palestine will be determined by the Mohammedan Congress to which he will report the outcome of his mission on his arrival in Palestine for which he is leaving today.
Recurrence of demonstrations against the manner in which the Palestine Mandate is administered is anticipated after the Grand Mufti has revealed the scant results obtained from the British Labor government, declares the World’s cable. The British have promised to reveal a new policy through the High Commissioner of Palestine after the Mufti’s return but the Arabs are convinced that the three principle demands—total suspension of immigration for the time being, creation of a constitutional government with a legislature representing the Palestine population in proportion to the number of Jews and Arabs which would then determine the conditions of future Jewish immigration, and the prohibition of the sale of land by Arabs—will not be granted, points out the World’s dispatch.
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