The New York Times · 8 November 1937

CP-1937-017

Great Peril Is Seen in Palestine Project

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GREAT PERIL IS SEEN IN PALESTINE PROJECT Foreign Policy Association Re- port Says Arabs in Proposed Jewish State Are Obstacle Special to Taa New XonK Trans. WASHINGTON, Nov. T.-The British plan for partition of Pal- estine into an Arab State and a is "fraught Jewish State with gravest danger," a report made pub- llo today by the Foreign Policy As- sociatlon declared.

If Great Brit- ain is to carry out its mandatory : responsibilitles In Palestine, the re- port also asserted, it must stamp out "Arab terrorism." The presence of 225,000 Arabs in the Jewish State that would be cre- ated by the plan of partition advo- cated by the British Royal Commis- sion constitutes the principal diffi- culty in the path of the plan's suc- cess, the report asserted. m "Almost 47 per cent of the popu- 1e lation of the Jewish State will con- sist of Arabs; three-quarters of its land will be Arab-owned," said

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"Great Peril Is Seen in Palestine Project," The New York Times, 8 November 1937. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1937-017. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1937-017

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