That the Frenoh language shall be the official language studied in the schools of Palestine was the request submitted to the government by the Freres School. Governor Ronald Storrs has invited some of the Jerusalem notables to discuss the matter, according to a report in the Arab paper, “Meraat El Sherk.”
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