The rulers of the Arab countries are planning to meet at Biad, the capital of Saudi Arabis, to map plans for pressing Arab demands on Palestine at the forthcoming General Assembly of the United Nations, it was learned here today.
Sir Ronald Campbell, British Ambassador to Egypt, was received today by King Farouk. It is understood that his visit was connected with the Palestine question. At the same time, members of the Palestine Arab delegation to the London Conference conferred with the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem and with Abdul Rahman Azzam Bey, secretary general of the Arab League, on question arising from the failure of the London parley and from the British decision to present the Palestine case to the U.N.
The continued presence in Egyptian shops of goods produced by Jewish industries in Palestine was questioned last night in the chamber of Deputies by Mohamed Khalidi, who said that such commerce with Palestine violated the Arab League’s anti-Zionist boycott. Minister of Finance Ibrahim Abdul Hadi Pasha, replying for the government, said that most of the “Zionist goods” were the remains of pre-war stocks, although some goods were entering the country “by fraud.”
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