A bitter attack against Zionism was made today by Prime Minister Nokrashi,Pasha in an address opening the Egyptian Parliament. He acoused the Zionists of “trying to destroy the Arab nation” and attempting “to rob” the Arabs of Palestine.
Warning the Allies against the Zionist demand that Palestine be established as a Jewish State, the Egyptian Prime Minister said that the Arab League will do everything in its power to combat this proposal. He emphasized that the present meeting of the Arab League in Caire is primarily devoted to this question.
The Caire press today reports that the President of Lebanon and the President of Syria, accompanied by their premiers and other ministers, will meet tomorrow at Shatura, twenty miles east of Beirut, in connection with the Palestine question.
CHIEF RABBI OF EGYPT REFUSES TO RENOUNCE BALFOUR DECLARATION
Despite anonymous threats of death as well as direct exhortations from Moslem leaders, the Chief Rabbi of Egypt, Hayim Nahoum, has refused to issue a declaration remuncing the Balfour Declaration and disowning Zionism in the name of Egyption Jews, he revealed to this correspondent today.
The campaign for renunciation of Zionism by the Chief Rabbi was vigorously pressed in the weeks preceding the ricting in this country ten days ago. The Grand Rabbi asserted that Arab leaders had been openly demanding, in letters to newspapers, that he come out against Zionism.
Among those who made such demands, the Grand Rabbi said, were Sheikh El Bakhri, supreme chief over the Mussulman religious sects, Sheikh Daraza, a parliamentary deputy, and secretary of Azzhar. the Cairo religious university, and Fuad Pasha Abba of the Arab League. These open demands, he said, were followed by several unsigned letters in which his life was threatened.
“I did not reply,” Hayim Nahoum said, “since I consider a reply to letters in newspapers as beneath my dignity as a religious-leader.”
Because tomorrow is Egypt’s “Request for Independence Day,” usually marked by demonstrations, and because of the recent disorders in this country, Palestine and particularly in Tripolitania, there is widespread apprehension here whether in the next fev days Arab leaders can control their people.
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