A hitherto unpublished and unnoticed memorandum which the pro-Arab Syrio-Palestine Committee in Geneva submitted to the Assembly of the League of Nations on September 24 has just come to light here. It is doubly interesting because neither the Assembly nor the latter’s sixth or political commission made any mention of the memorandum and because its contents indicate that the Arabs have not departed from the line of complete resistance.
Zionism, according to this memorandum, contradicts article 22 of the Palestine Mandate by striving to establish a Jewish state and to suppress the existing Arab population. “Great Britain promised the Jews a country which did not belong to her in order to obtain the support of Jewish finance—and to open a route to India,” the memorandum claims.
The memorandum asks, “What interest has the League of Nations in supporting such an injustice? The Jewish National Home is being established under the protection of British bayonets. We demand the adjustment of an injustice which the Mandates Commission has unfortunately endorsed.”
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