RIGHTS OF ARABS

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20730, 14 February 1939, Page 7

RIGHTS OF ARABS

WARNING TO BRITAIN PALESTINE GOVERNMENT A STRUGGLE FEARED (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Feb. 14, 1 p.m.) WINNIPEG, Feb. 13 “ Unless the Arabs’ right to govern Palestine is recognised, the whole Arab world will be forced into a desperate struggle with Britain,” states Fuad Challl Mufarri, Damascus Secretary of the Arab National Bureau here, In an address before the Institute of International Affairs. “ Such a struggle would be unfortunate for Britain if London desires to preserve its interest in the Suez Canal and the air route to India. The Arabs would prefer the British tie if based on justice, but will not permit it. to be used for subjection and colonisation. “ Britain had no right to promise the Jews part of Palestine.” RESUMPTION OF CONFERENCE THE ARAB CASE PRESENTED ANGLO-JEWISH DISCUSSIONS (Official Wireless) (Received Feb. 14, 11.35 ajn.) RUGBY, Feb. 13 The conferences on the situation in Palestine were continued to-day. Ragheb Bey Nashashibi, president of the Defence Party, was sufficiently recovered from his indisposition to attend. The morning session was devoted to a continuation of the discussion of the Arab case between the Arab delegates and the British representatives, Mr Malcolm MacDonald, Mr R. A. Butler, and the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava. Muri Pasha made a lengthy statement on the McMahon correspondence. To-morrow the Amir Faishal and Prince Seif al Hussein will make statements, and this will be followed by a statement by Mr Butler on behalf of Britain. The afternoon meeting with the Jewish delegation was occupied with a discussion on Dr. Weizmann’s statement on behalf of tho Jewish Agency. SETTLEMENT OF JEWS IN A SINGLE TERRITORY * GERMAN LEADER’S PROPOSAL (United press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) BERLIN, Feb. 13 What the world should do with 15,000,000 Jews was blandly explained by the Reich cultural leader, Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, to foreign journalists. The diplomatic corps, he said, had rejected their settlement in Palestine on the ground that the Jews would it a centre of unrest, and it opposed the distribution of Jews throughout the world on the ground that infiltration was dangerous. The whole of the world's Jews must be settled in a single territory, which must not be a Jewish State, but a “reservation,” supervised by a police-trained administration, under a Governor, who would act on behalf of the democracies. Dr. Rosenberg indicated that Guiana or Madagascar would be very suitable sites for the “reservation.”