London newspapers today report that the constitution of the League of Arab Nations which was made public yesterday in Cairo recognizes Palestine as a member of the League.
The constitution contains twenty-two articles and two protocols, one of which provides that Palestine shall have a vote in the League’s Council. Since the future status of Palestine is still undecided, the Council itself will nominate a Palestinian to represent his fellow countrymen as a full-fledged member of the League, with voting and other rights. The constitution will be presented for ratification to the pan-Arab congress which opens in Cairo on Saturday.
Lord Strabolgi, pro-Zionist member of the House of Lords, addressing a Zionist meeting today in Edinburgh said that the proposal to surrender the rights of the Jews in Palestine and the British interests there to “some mebulous international body” is nothing but “sheer lunacy and cowardly defeatism.” He insisted that the most practical solution of the Arab-Jewish problem would be to combine Palestine and Transjordan into a dominion.
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