Geneva, Aug. 7.
Foreign interest, and ven intervention. in the affairs of Palestine is quite legitimate, "Mr. J.-H. Hall, secretary of the administration in Palestine and Transjordania, told the Mandstes Commission of the League fof Nations yesterday, in answer to 9 question raised in yesterday's discussion of the British partition plan by the chairman, Mr.. Orls.
When Arab chiefs intervened in the political ArabJewish trouble of 1096, Mr. Hall declared, they did 0 through humanitarian motives. The Dower of mandate contains no ai rangement for such situations, so that the administration is open to any asked solution which may be suggested.
'The Arab-Jewish problem extends beyond national bounds, as Is shown, he observed, by the protest from the Government' of Traq_ against, the scheme to divide the Holy Land into separate Arab and Jewish states, This {sa perfectly natural and legitimate state of affairs, for members of the League of Nations frequently express themselves on questions In which they are not involved—Havas. zi Leader Is Attacked Zurich, Aug. 9.
A lively attack against' Dr. Chal Weizmann, head of the Zionist Union, for having agreed to the British Government's plan to divide Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, was made during the political debate at the Zionist Congress here yester~ day by M. Grossmann, president of the Jewish State Party in Tel Aviv.
Dr. Weizmann did not consult the more democratic elements in the Zionist movement as he should have done, complained M. Grossmann who is energetically opposed to the parti-ion plan and to the proposal " that the heads of the Zionist movement be allowed to negotiate with full powers with the British Government—Havas, US. Labour Oppositio:
Washington, Aug. 8.
The American Federation of Labour has cabled the League of Nations: Mandates Commission to protest against the proposal for the panion of Palestine, it was revealed to-day by the President of the organization, Mr. William Green.
The Federation, Mr. Green said, termed the partition proposal "a gross miscarriage of international justice, and a flagrant violation of the inter-ational obligation which. the mandatary the world."—United Press.
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