The possibility of an understanding being reached between Jews and Arabs and the calling of a round table conference is believed to be foreshadowed in conversations between Joshua Hankin, chief land-buyer for the Jewish National Fund, and Issa Elissa, editor of the Arab newspaper Falastin. The Falastin publishes a statement in which Hankin is alleged to state that the highest aim of the Jews is 50,000 additional agricultural families requiring about three and a half million dunams of land. This proposal, the Falastin says, opens the way to round table negotiations.
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