A promise to increase the powers of the proposed legislative council for Palestine if ti does good work has been made by High Commissioner Wauchope to Arab leaders, it was learned here today.
Commissioner Wauchope is understood to have made the promise in a reply to a memorandum on the council by the Arabs, in an effort to persuade them to accept the proposed legislative body. Some sections of the Arabs have already accepted the proposal. Jews have been united in opposing it.
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