Volume VI, September, 1947 British, Page 8819
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Sep 1947 - Unanimous Recommendations.
The United Nations Commission on Palestine (see 8671 A) commenced its hearings in Jerusalem on June 16 and, after visiting different parts of the country and holding public hearings for the presentation of the Jewish case (the Arabs persisting in their boycott of the Commission), left Palestine on July 24.
At its first public session on June 17 the Commission heard a statement on behalf of the Jewish Agency from Mr. Shertok. The latter, while underlining, and citing many examples of, the possibility of Arab-Jewish co-operation in the economic field, emphasised that this did not imply that the Agency supported the idea of a unitary State. The paramount issue, he said, was that of immigration, on which question the Arabs and Jews were diametrically opposed; whilst the Arab leaders were in opposition to Jewish immigration, the Jewish community regarded the present rate as insufficient, and any Arab-Jewish political co-operation was ...

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