ARAB CATHOLICS SEND PROTESTS

Chronicle (Levin), 7 May 1946, Page 5

ARAB CATHOLICS SEND PROTESTS

Press Assn.

VEILED MOSLEM WOMEN DEMONSTRATE Furious Activiiy To Marshal Opposition To Report

By Telegraph

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Reeeived Tuesday, 11.30 a.m. LONDON, May 6. Palestine Arab Catholics have cabled protests against the Anglo-Americ-an Committee's report to the King and also tlu* Pope, Generalissimo Stalin, President Truman, M. Goum anl Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, states Reuter's Jerusalem C|.Ti|spondent. Each message is in similar terms, saying that af"' Nation of the recommendations will lead to the suppi.miing of the Arabs, including Christians, from the Holy Land, and requesting intervention for the establishment of an And) democraey and government, and safeguarding the Christian population. ►Steel-helmeted police reinforcements, carrying lathis and shields were sent to Jalfa Gate, where veiled Moslem women wero protesting against the Palestine report. The women *w r-' dispersed after harangues by civic officials while the jicilt e cleared the immediate vicinity of Jaffa Gate. Madame Mooghannon, the educated American author of the hook, "Arab Women," led the women demonstrators, a nnrnbiir of whom made speeches on the theme of "this is the gj.'.lest betrayal of promises." A banner inscribed, "We won't give up the land which [ water and blood of our ancestors," was carried at the m ing.

Ai'Ojs in Jerusalem ancl Arabs tlir.n-Jiout the world spent the weekeiu! lu a fury of activity to marshall opo- nion to the Palestine report, says tii' Daily Mail's Jerusalem corresponcleir. They launclied plans to fight the Antlo- American Commission's recommPb'i. -ions throughout the world. There was ven talk of appeal for Russian prot' tion. One Arab newspaper says Ab i .l Eazek, commander of the Arab re'V .vmy during the 1936-39 troubles, lia - ,-i'vived at Moscow. y>- :s at the weekend included: — (1) Arab leaders miified their six

i main political parties in Palestine ana j formed a national front. 1 (2) They decided to create a nationai ■ political fund to fight Zionism and con- ' duct a world propaganda drive. In ad- ; ditton, a comniittee of the Arab League is drawing up a jplan for unified action ' by -12,000,000 members of the League, I including an armed revolt in the last \ emergency. ! The Iraq defence committee for ; Palestine and leaders of political i parties at Bagdad, have called a general strike- for May 10 as a protest against the Palestine report.