The Palestine government has done little or nothing to stop the boycott against the Jewish merchants, says Dr. Alexander Mombelli, Jerusalem correspondent of the National Catholic Welfare Council News, in the December 2nd issue. “The boycott agitation sponsored by Arab leaders continues unabated. Committees of Jewish merchants waited upon the High Commissioner and the District Officers to urge their intervention but the government after a feeble attempt to hide behind legal technicalities decided to stay out of the game.”
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