All speakers agreed with the Government's decision to hold the forthcoming Palestine Conference in London.
Lord Harlech suggested that the Government consider the possibilities of a loose federal organization as offering prospects of an agreed solution.
He said that, in his view, Jewish settlement would grow very slowly, but on surer foundations. To bring such a policy to fruition, there must be friendly ce-operation, and its growth must not be too fast.
The tragedy of the policy of a Jewish national home in Palestine, he went on, was that it had been made a refuge because of Jewish persecution.
The emigration into Palestine had grown from 11,000 annually to an inrush of from 60,000 to 70,000, mainly owing to German persecution.
Lord Harlech concluded by saying that neither an -Arab nor a Jewish Egypt Wants Mufti At London Talks Cairo, Dec. 9.
In replying to the British Government's invitation to attend the forthcoming London talks on Palestine, the Egyptian Government is understood to be pressing for the participation of the Grand Mufti or his delegates as a condition of its own participation.—Reuter.
According to diplomatic opinion here today's conversations indicated ihe Japan at present has no intention of announcing a formal renunciation of the Nine Power Treaty, but prefers whatever new government may emerge in China to act in this matter.
The British Ambassador, Sir Robert Craigie, visited the Foreign Office and conferred with Mr. Arita later in the day. It was reliably reported that the British Ambassador raised certain specific points concerning British interests in the Far East in his conversation with the Japanese Foreign Minister.
It is understood that the American Ambassador made no response to Mr. Arita's statements except to state that Japan was already acquainted with the American views on the subjects Mr Arita mentioned.—United Press.
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