The Government, therefore, had to try and discover some other way out of the difficulty.
It was true that the Arab campaign of violence still continued, but there had been a great diminution in the number of outrages since the re-in-forcement of the British forces, and great progress had been made in restoring authority in those areas Which had fallen into the hands of Arab gangs.
That policy would continue until, by other means, appeasement was reached in Palestine.
They could not govern Palestine forever with troops.
Therefore, the Government had decided to call a Conference, and had received acceptances from Palestinian Arabs in Egypt, Saudi-Arabia, and Trans-Jordan, and from the Jewish Agency.—Reuter
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