The “valuable work” of the Palestinian Jewish units of the British Middle Eastern Army was praised at a press conference today by Richard G. Casey, retiring British Minister of State for the Middle East, who has returned here before assuming his new post as Governor of Bengal.
Queried concerning the rumored Pan-Arab Federation, Mr. Casey said that the British Government was “sympathetic” to Arab aspirations for unity, “but that this was a matter for the Arabs themselves to work out.” In reply to another question, concerning the so called “Green Book” issued in Cairo, which reportedly recommended the inclusion of Palestine within the projected Arab federation, he stated that “he could not remember the colors of various documents, but political developments can not yet be foretold.”
(The “Green Book” was submitted to Mr. Casey in Cairo in November, according to a report in several London political periodicals at that time. Drawn up by the Iraq Government, it suggested a union of Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Transjordan, which would be federated with Iraq, and guaranteed protection for all “national minorities,” including the Jews in Palestine.)
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