The British administration offers in December to…

The British administration offers in December to set up a legislative council of twenty-eight members, in which the Arabs (both Muslim and Christian) will have a majority.

The British will retain control through their selection of non-elected members.

Arab leaders favor the proposal, although Arabs will not be represented in the council in proportion to their numbers, but the Zionists criticize it bitterly as an attempt to freeze the national home through a constitutional Arab stranglehold.

In any event, London rejects the proposal.

This, together with the example of rising nationalism in neighboring Egypt and Syria, increasing unemployment in Palestine, and a poor citrus harvest, touches off a long-smoldering Arab rebellion.