The first reaction in the Holy land to the White Paper, outlining the British Government's new policy on Palestine, is one of keen disappointment.
Arabs declare that Great Britain has evaded a clear-cut policy, especially in regard to immigration.
Arab circles indicated today that they were unlikely to accept what was virtually a round-table conference on the ground that it would be tantamount to recognizing Jewish rights.
Jews, on their part, deprecate representatives of neighbouring Arab states taking part in the conference.
In the course of a preliminary statement on the Palestine Commission's report, the Jewish Agency says that, having broken up the existing national home, the Commission proceeds to abolish the Balfour Declaration and part of the Jewish national home provisions of the mandate.
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