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Palestine Arab Leader Submits Memorandum to Soviet Envoy

October 16, 1945
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The Soviet ambassador to Egypt, Alexei Schiborin, who is visiting Palestine, today received a memorandum submitted by Auni Bey Abdul Hadi, Arab nationalist leader, urging the Russian Government to support the Arab cause and give no aid to the Zionists.

A Cairo dispatch by the correspondent of the French Press Agency says that Schiborin is in Palestine to study the present situation on the spot, since Moscow has had no direct information in recent months on developments here. It points out that Moscow never recognized the British mandate and never appointed diplomatic representatives in Jerusalem.

It is essential for Moscow to follow Palestine events closely, the dispatch continued, because if the Arab-Jewish dispute is placed before the United Nations Organization, the USSR will have to side with one or the other, something which it has carefully refrained from doing so far. Another problem for the Soviet, it adds, is its attitude towards the Arab League.

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