The Moslem Conference in Jerusalem has placed Great Britain in the uncomfortable position of having to choose between the Moslems and the Jews, but Britain, leaning on the Moslems in India and elsewhere, can make only one choice, and that in favour of the Moslems, Maitre Abdul Rachman Bey Azzam, the Egyptian Wafdist, who was deported by the Palestine Government for “making a speech in regard to Italian policy in Tripolitana calculated to embitter the relations between Italy, and the Mandatory Government” to the Moslem Conference in Jerusalem, which elected him as a member of its Executive, said yesterday morning at Gaza, when he was put on the train for Egypt by a police escort, according to a report appearing in the Palestine Arab organ “Felestin”.
Maitre Azzam had a great welcome at Gaza, the “Felestin” says, and there, “attended by thousands”, he summarised the achievements of the Moslem Conference.
As regards Italy, Maitre Azzam concluded, the fact that he had been deported for saying it had made no difference to the truth of what he had said, and he still insisted that Italian policy in Tripolitana had resulted, in twenty years, in the decimation of the Arabs and the diminution of the population from 2,500,000 to 600,000.
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