A PALESTINE ARAB DELEGATION TOURING THE BALKANS TO SEEK SUPPORT FOR THE HOLY LAND ARABS ARRIVED HERE FROM ISTANBUL TODAY AND WAS RECEIVED BY PATRIARCH MIRON CHRISTEA, SUPREME ORTHODOX PRELATE IN RUMANIA.
PATRIARCH CHRISTEA, WHO HAS MADE SHARP UTTERANCES AGAINST THE JEWS RECENTLY, DISCUSSED THE PROPOSED PARTITION OF PALESTINE WITH EMIL GHORY, SECRETARY OF THE PALESTINE GRAND MUFTI’S PARTY, AND NICHOLAS HAURI, JERUSALEM ORTHODOX PRIEST. THE DELEGATION APPEALED TO CHRISTEA TO BRING THE ORTHODOX CHURCH, WHICH CONTROLS MANY HOLY PLACES IN PALESTINE, INTO THE FIGHT AGAINST THE JEWS AND AGAINST PARTITION.
IN ISTANBUL THE DELEGATION SOUGHT TURKISH AID, BUT IT WAS LEARNED FROM A HIGHLY RELIABLE SOURCE THERE THAT THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT HAD DECIDED TO REMAIN NEUTRAL ON THE QUESTION OF PARTITION, BEING UNWILLING TO INTERFERE IN PALESTINE’S INTERNAL AFFAIRS AND ANXIOUS TO TAKE NO STEP WHICH WOULD LOWER THE LEAGUE OF NATION’S PRESTIGE.
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