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Egypt Urges Britain to Grant “legitimate” Arab Claims

September 23, 1938
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Foreign Minister Abdel Fattah Yehia Pasha of Egypt, addressing the League of Nations Assembly today, expressed the hope that the British Government would find a way to grant the Palestine Arabs their “Legitimate claims,” and voiced confidence that Britain would be able to solve the pales tine problem in a way for which the Moslem world would be grateful.

The Egyptian Government realizes that injustices have been done to Jews in European countries, the foreign Minister said, but injustice done to Jews would not be remedied by injustice to Arabs. Declaring Palestine events found and echo in Egypt, he said that “in Egypt’s view the conception of a Jewish State goes much further that the national home.”

The solution of the Palestine question offered by the Mandatory Power should be accepted by the majority of the people in the country and not imposed on them, he declared, expressing the hope for eventual sincere collaboration between Jews and Arabs.

Dr. Nahum Goldmann, representative of the World Zionist Organization, today discussed the attitude to be taken by the League on Britain’s project to partition pales tine, with Holger Anderson, the rapporteur on the Palestine question, and also with the delegations of Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Rumania, Yugoslavia and South American countries.

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