A four-point plan to resist the recommendations of the Anglo-American inquiry committee was drafted here today by the Arab Higher Committee at a meeting which lasted five hours. The committee appointed an emergency sub-committee to map plans for:
1. A civil disobedience campaign.
2. Mobilization of Arab youth and Arab resources “in the service of the country.”
3. Protest mass-meetings throughout Palestine for next Friday, in addition to the general strike by Palestine Arabs tomorrow.
4. Creation of an Arab national fund to finance the Arab cause in Palestine.
A spokesman for the Higher Committee told reporters that the committee had sent the British Government a letter which could be considered as the “next thing to an ultimatum.” The letter, he said, could be taken as a warning that an Arab uprising similar to those of 1936-39 could be expected in Palestine should Britain accept the recommendations of the inquiry committee.
GENERAL STRIKE TODAY IN PALESTINE, SYRIA, LEBANON; EGYPT NOT JOINING
In Syria and Lebanon the Arabs have decided to join in the general strike called by the Arab Higher Committee for tomorrow. In Egypt, the Government, anxious to avoid further incidents after two days of anti-British rioting in Alexandria, is expected to discourage any general strike, according to a Reuter’s dispatch from Cairo.
The Egyptian press today reported a plan to hold an Arab congress on the Palestine issue, attended by representatives of all Arab countries. The report also said that Azzam Bey, general secretary of the Arab League, today visited the British Ambassador and the U.S. Minister and urged them to appeal to their governments to consider the Arab protests seriously before supporting the recommendations of the Anglo-American committee.
A report from Baghdad said that the Iraq Government today sent a note to the United States and Britain protesting against the recommendations on Palestine. The Prime Minister of Iraq, Twafig Sawidi, is reported to have stated that the recommendations were “aggressive, rash, inhuman and unjust to Palestine and the Arabs.”
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