The Removal Of Hebrew Letters From Palestine Stamps Demand Of Arabs

Two columns of news-agency briefs. The demand that the Palestine government abolish the two Hebrew letters, Aleph and Yud, the two initials of Eretz Israel, on the Palestine post stamps, was made by the Palestine Arab executive in a memorandum submitted to the Palestine High Court. The same executive asks amnesty for Arab youths who were arrested in connection with the strike which occurred on the arrival of Lord Balfour to Palestine, and an Arabic paper, El Carmel, is quoted backing a boycott fund. The Jewish Press

Mayors of Leading Palestine Cities Plan Price Control

Mustapha Bey Khalidi, Mayor of Jerusalem; Shabbatai Levi, Mayor of Haifa and Omar II Bitar, Mayor of Jaffa, sitting with Tel Aviv, and the meeting decided to form a permanent committee and to present a joint declaration to the High Commissioner. It runs as a story about the price of flour. Buffalo Jewish Review

Palestine Arabs Plan Political Body

The Associated Press, in a Washington state daily: No official political body representing all Arabs of the country has existed since dissolution of the Arab High committee by the Palestine government in October, 1936, during disturbances. There had been one. The government dissolved it. Peninsula Daily News

Palestine Arabs Ask Creation of Nat’l Government

Eight months later: the Arabs in Palestine this week issued a demand that a National government be established in Palestine. The demand was voiced in a resolution adopted at a conference of representatives of the Arab Chambers of Commerce in Palestine. Twenty-one years before the PLO. Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle

Palestinians Due More Voice In Gaza Rule

A council of 23 Palestinians and 7 Egyptians, and in passing, as background nobody thought remarkable: An all-Palestine government was formed in 1948 with its capital in Gaza and still exists in theory. The Evening Sun