Leaders of Arab parties decided today not to hold a strike on Wednesday, the day High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope returns here from London. The plan for a one-day general strike had been advanced by the Arab youth organization. The decision was taken at a conference called by former Mayor of Jerusalem Ragheb Bey Nashashibi.
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