Informed Arab circles here today indicated that the conferences last week in Cairo between the Egyptian and the Iranian foreign ministers on the question of the proposed formation of a federation of Arab countries, including Palestine, have brought disappointing results.
The prospects for the creation of a political pan-Arab federation in the near future are not bright, these Arab leaders say. Considerable opposition against such political unification exists in the various Arab states, and there seems to be little possibility of overcoming this opposition at present. Arab leaders, however, emphasized today that the outlook for cultural – and in some cases even economic cooperation between the Arab countries is brighter as a result of the Cairo conference.
At a conference of leaders of the Jewish Socialist Party in Palestine held at Tel Aviv today, Mr. David Ben-Gurion, laborite leader, emphasized that the political attitude of the Jews in Palestine may be summarized in the slogan: “Help the war as if there were no White Paper, and fight the White Paper as if there were no war.”
Mr. E. Dobkin, head of the immigration department of the Jewish Agency, addressing the conference, urged the need of a Bureau to devote itself to devising work opportunities for all the Jews expected to arrive from Central and Eastern Europe.
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