Meanwhile, authoritative quarters said this evening that the scheduled White Paper would prove a compromise between extremist Arab claims and the proposals already submitted by the British Government at the time of the London "Round Table" conference, when they were rejected by both Arab and Jewish delegates.
The policy of a Jewish national home in Palestine has been abandoned, they said, and Jewish immi gration will be limited to such an extent that the Jewish population Will not total more than a third of the whole.
The British Government seems to have been greatly impressed by Arab arguments, which stress that the development of Jewish national home plans in Palestine was actively undertaken only since Jews in Central Europe have been persecuted.
A reliable source declared that immigration will therefore be limited to 75,000 during the next five year: with 25,000 more to come from Germany, most of these to be children.
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