The Palestine Arabs will agree to participate in the negotiations with the Government for drawing up a constructive plan in Palestine, but with the following reservations, the resolutions adopted by the meeting of the Palestine. Arab Executive held to consider the situation which have been published here to-day, state.
(1) Participation in no wise involves recognition of the Jewish National Home; (2) the negotiations must not be based on the MacDonald letter or on other documents supporting the Zionist policy; (3) the negotiations should be conducted by appointed representatives, but not in London, since the plan must be executed in Palestine, and (4) no joint discussions with Jewish representatives.
The resolutions were adopted by 16 votes against 14, 20 members of the Executive being absent. Auni Bey Abdul Hadi and Jemal Husseini, the secretaries of the Palestine Arab Executive, it is understood, strongly urged that a delegation should be sent to London, but they were defeated by the argument that all previous Arab delegations to London had. failed to achieve their purpose, and that to send another delegation now would only tend to suggest that an Arab-Jewish understanding is possible.
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