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Arab Anti-jewish Outbreaks Reported

May 5, 1941
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Anti-Jewish outbreaks and kidnaping of Jewish leaders in the Holy land were reported by the Associated Press today in a Beirut dispatch quoting French sources and travelers from Palestine.

The outbreaks were attributed to “Arab reaction to events in the Balkens and Mesopotamia”and aggravation of anti-Jewish feeling by the “mass arrival of Jewish emigrants from the Balkans and … the situation in Iraq.”

The British were said by the travelers to be confident that they could control the situation.

The dispatch also quoted an editorial in a Beirut native newspaper alleging that British policy in Palestine had caused “bitterness in some minds.”

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