London, Feb. 13.
HE Jewish cla im to Palestine will never be abandoned, says un official statement to the Palesti Conference on behalf of the Jewish Agency. The statement puts forward the Jewish case, and replies to the Arab contention that possession of the Holy Land is a natural right of the Arabs, The root of the Jewish problem, it says, La in the homelessness of the Jewish people.
The Jews believed that the Arabs could find a meeting ground beneficial to both, but only on the basis of the Mandate implemented in the spirit and the letter, in large-scale Jewish immigration in accordance with Palestine's economic absorptive capacity, in the principle of an active policy of development, and in effective safeguards against a minority status, The Jews did not want to dominate the Arabs, but would not allow themselves to be dominate ed by the Arabs.
Referring to "well-intentioned" projects for founding Jewish territorial bases elsewhere than in Palestine, the statement declares that a long neried fof experiment. must precede' such fare-scale settlement, goes on to express regret that the: Conference should have opened before the restoration of law and order in Palestine,
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