A brief communique issued by the Government announced that the High Commissioner, Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, yesterday received a group of Arab notables and proposed the establishment of a legislative counfil for Palestine.
Today, the High Commissioner will meet with Zionist leaders to make the same announcement.
The event, which came with dramatic suddeness after having long been postponed, has stirred all Palestine to the depths. Jewish leaders of all groups throughout the world have long waged an energetic battle against the proposed semi-democratic assembly, charging that Palestine Jewry will be fixed permanently as a minority under such a legislative set-up.
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