Arabs in Palestine are urged to prepare to take over the administration of the country, in an article published today in Falastin, leading Arab newspaper.
The article points out that “the political part” of the British White Paper will be implemented during 1944, including the transfer of the Palestine administration into the hands of “the sons of the country.” Accordingly, the paper writes, steps should be taken now for the preparation of suitable candidates for various administrative posts.
(In addition to barring Jewish immigration after March, 1944, the White Paper of 1939 provides for a ten-year “transitional period,” during which “the people of Palestine will be given an increasing part in the government of their country,” and “Arab and Jewish representatives will be invited to serve as heads of departments approximately in proportion to their respective populations.”)
Several petitions from Palestine Arab groups were submitted to the Premier of Lebanon, Riad Solh when he passed through here en route from Lebanon to Cairo to discuss questions concerning the projected pan-Arab Federation in the Egyptian capital, the Palestine press reports. The petitions contain proposals on the solution of the Arab-Jewish problem in Palestine and on the role which Palestine is to play in the pan-Arab Federation if such a union is established.
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