As far as we are concerned, we re-affirm that the proposals were indeed made and considered in Arab-English circles, and that they were due to be announced in Jerusalem on February 8th. or 9th. under official auspices; and that the Palestine Administration is greatly concerned about the leakage which made possible the premature publication of the proposals and has compelled the initiators to withdraw for the time being, Mr. Meer Crossman declares in a statement on the Arab-Jewish Round-Table Conference plans made public in the press recently, issued to-day by the Executive Committee of the Zionist Revisionist World Union.
The Jewish public should not give credence to the denials, he continues, as it is but natural that the promoters of a prematurely revealed scheme should endeavour to make people believe that it had never really existed. We are satisfied, Mr. Grossman says, with the result of our publication, as we indeed, directed our efforts to preventing the proposals reaching a stage in which they could be regarded as actual. We preferred the odium of being accused of publishing a document which is declared to be unsubstantiated, rather than giving the scheme a chance of becoming an actual menace. In this case we followed the policy we adopted on the occasion of the publication of the White Paper, but fortunately we had more time to play with in order to prevent the mischief.
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