Prohibition of land transference to others than Arabs, permanent stoppage of immigration, and promotion of the welfare of distressed Arab peasants, especially those who are dispossessed by Jews, are together with the constant Arab demand for the abrogation of the Balfour Declaration and the Palestine Mandate, on the ground that they are in contradiction to Article 22 of the League of Nations Covenant, and the establishment of a Palestine Government responsible to an elected Representative Council, are the chief items in a letter which the Palestine Arab Executive has sent to the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations through the Government, the J.T.A. learns. The letter, which is dated May 1st., 1931., is signed by Moussa Kazim Pasha, the President of the Palestine Arab Executive, and accompanies the memorandum on the White Paper of October 1930, which has been prepared on behalf of the Executive by Auni Bey Abdul Hadi. Fifty copies of the memorandum and the letter were despatched on Saturday to Geneva for consideration at the for thcoming meeting of the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations.
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