The Palestine Partition Commission, back from a 14-week investigation of the Peel plan to divide the Holy Land into independent Jewish and Arab states and a British-mandated corridor, held its first session here today behind closed doors. Lord Lytton, chairman of the Palestine Potash Company, testified. No public sessions have as yet been scheduled.
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