Former Magistrate Bernard A. Rosenblatt of New York may appeal to the Privy Council, Britain’s highest appellate court, against a decision of the Palestine Supreme Court upholding the Palestine Government’s right to prohibit his acquiring land in a section of the country barred to Jewish purchasers, it was learned here today.
The suit was brought by Rosenblatt, one-time president of the American Palestine Foundation Fund, as a test case of the rights of American Jewish citizens to buy land despite the restrictions. He claimed that the Palestine Mandate and a subsequent treaty between the United States and Britain guaranteed him against discrimination. Although ruling against him, Chief Justice William Fitzgerald admitted that he might have a good case before an international tribunal.
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