Chicago Defender · 30 January 1937

CP-1937-015

Palestine Arabs Charge Prejudice

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h Palestine Arabs a R Charge Prejudice CI = JERUSALEM, Jan. 29-The Royal Commission of Inquiry continued this week to hear the testimony of witnesses on behalf of the Arab High Committee. Fuad Saba, secre- tary of the committee, testified on the subject of taxation. Replying to a question from a of the Commission, member Mr.

Saba said that, whereas Palestine before the war was predominately en agricultural country, the manda- tory administration had embarked an industrial policy that pro- on tected a large number of Jewish in- dustries This, he asserted, was re- sulting in the raising of the cost of principally for the Arab living, peasants, in order to open the door to more Jewish immigrants.

P Mayor Testifies Dr. Hussein Khalidi, Mayor of said also testified. He | it Jerusalem, Palestine Arabs were no more back- ward than the Arabs of Iraq but that the former could not get self- govern

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"Palestine Arabs Charge Prejudice," Chicago Defender, 30 January 1937. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1937-015. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1937-015

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