The explanations given by the representative of the Palestine government, Sydney Moody, to the session of the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations in Geneva, that Jews cannot be admitted to Transjordan “for political reasons” and that a legislative assembly will be established in Palestine despite the Jewish opposition, provoked a good deal of excitement among the Jews in Palestine.
Expression to this excitement is given today in the Hebrew press which described Moody’s explanations as “cynical statements.”
JEWS WILL FIGHT COUNCIL
“The Jews will never consent to sign their political suicide,” editorials in the Hebrew press declare, emphasizing that the establishment of a legislative council in Palestine will be bitterly fought by all Jewish elements in the country.
At the same time a memorandum was submitted today to the Palestine government by ex-Mayor Nashashibi in the name of the Arab National Defense Party, asking for the establishment of a self-government in Palestine and for the stoppage of Jewish immigration into the country.
The memorandum was submitted
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