The London conferences on Palestine must be based on present realities rather than on past promises, declares Mrs. Anne O’Hare McCormick, roving correspondent of the New York Times, in the second of a series of dispatches from Palestine. The crucial question is immigration, she says, “and nothing else really matters.” The only solutions possible, Mrs. McCormick said, are an Arab-Zionist Agreement to accept the present rate of immigration for a five or ten year period — which seems impossible — or the temporary constituting of Palestine as a crown colony. The fact that such a course is advanced as a possibility, she said, may have a salutary effect on the London conversations.
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