PALESTINE REPORT REJECTED BY ARABS

Chronicle (Levin), 27 May 1946, Page 5

PALESTINE REPORT REJECTED BY ARABS

STATEMENT BY HIGHER COMMITTEE JEIiUKALEAL Alay 24. "Tlie Arab Higlu'r Gnmmittee rcjects ? mi» Angln- Amencan proposals for Ualesi:tc and dninands the cslablislniHMit of ii Arali national State."' 'l'lie committee deeidcd to give lliis :in-\\er to the A nglo- American proi ..als for Palestine iit a meeting liehl • >d;jv in response to the British and \ niericiui Governments' requests for views Dii the report 011 the Palestine ■: ision. The roimnittee dentanded: (1) The : iiio»ation of the niandate and the int- : ii'iliate res-ation oi' -lewish immigra•ion and saies of land to .lews; (2) the ; irinatioii of an Ara!) State which >11 1«1 be a nietnber of the Arab League; - nd > :: i the u ithdrawal of all foreigu ■ i •>«)ps froni Palestine. The eonnnittee declared: "The Arabs .-ist that they alone have the riglil deterinine their own future. " • • The ITiited States deelaration re- : r i ? i 1 1 ii" to the transfer of 1U0, ()()() .lews • ■ Palestine is a fnrther indieation of ! i- insiin-erity of ihe British and Ame'.'•ini eonsultations uitli the Arabs, ■ fiii-li eannol be considered its niorc • :tii dilatory laeties, " said a statenient - - ned by the Arab Otfice. "lt is ol>\ ious that it* the eonsulta- • "ns are taken seriouslv by Ameriea, J - e. ish imniigViition to Palestine, whieh the crux of the whole problem, eottld ; .t be divoreed froni thein. • ' 1 f ihe I'nited States, whose prestige '•! the .Miildle East has alniost disnp- }•• :> i etl. assidnously pnrsues a poliey -t i 1 iit i ii" :t verv great danger to the i\i-\ eiopiiient of tlie Arab world, the i zbted States should not be stirprised : its \ital interests in the .Middle East • ■ti* grnvely jeopurdi.sed. The Arabs •!o-e to recngnise the legality of t iti-d States interferenee. ' '