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Vaccilating Policy May Result in Deep Abyss Between Arabs and British Government Arab Executive’s Pr

February 19, 1931
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This vaccilating policy is a very serious matter and may result in creating a deep abyss between the Arab population and His Majesty’s Government, casing the Arabs to lose their confidence in the British Government, says the statement handed by the Palestine Arab Executive delegation to the High Commissioner yesterday (already briefly reported in yesterday’s J.T.A. Bulletin), according to the official English text furnished this afternoon to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

I assure your Excellency, the statement, which is signed by Moussa Kazim Paha, the President of the Palestine Arab Executive, proceeds, that Mr. MacDonald through his letter has ruined all hope of any policy of co-operation between Arabs and Jews, if any such hope existed, and has rendered the possibility of an understanding between the two parties absolutely impossible. I leave it to the Executive of the Seventh Arab Congress to determine the lines of a policy they may consider consistent with the interests of the country in view of the British Government’s new policy embodied in Mr. MacDonald’s letter to Dr. Weizmann.

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