The Archive · 1936

ARAB OBDURACY

fs {0 be hoped that the efforts of the Emir of Trans-Jordania to in-@uce the Higher Arab Committee to see reason may be reinforced and the decision to boycott the Peel Cé mission be reviewed. That form of protest has been adopted before but seldom hasbeen successful, It certainly does not win sympathy. In view of the exceptionally. authoritative character of the Commission the Arab leaders are particularly ill-advised to fall into this error. They appear to require the British authorities, Suspend the immigration of Jews into Palestine pending the Commission's

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