The New York Times · 20 January 1939

CP-1939-006

Demands Moderated by Palestine Arabs

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DEMANDS MODERATED BY PALESTINE ARABS • Insistence on a National Govern- ment Is Pat Aside Wireless to THE NEW JORK TIMEB. CAIRO, Egypt, Jan.

19.-Despite an official statement issued last Tuesday by the Arab High Com- mittee from Beirut that the Pales- tine Arab delegation to London would be bound by the familiar de- mands for the establishment of a national Palestine government for similar to that of Iraq, abolition of the Balfour Declaration and com- plete stoppage of Jewish immigra- tion became somewhat more mod- delegates themselves erate. second At meeting under the chairmanship of Premier Mo- hammed Mahmoud Pasha of Egypt the forth- of the Arab delegates to coming London discussions the Palestinians were persuaded to be a trifle more reasonable.

Hereto- fore the crucial question for the | Palestine Arabs at the London talks be to the establishment of a was national government, but n

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"Demands Moderated by Palestine Arabs," The New York Times, 20 January 1939. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1939-006. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1939-006

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