The charge that the Palestine Government is providing outbreaks in the country in an attempt to prove to the United Nations that (##)0,000 occupation troops must be maintained there, was made here by an authoritative Jewish Agency source.
The same source, who recently returned from Jerusalem, declared that the British authorities in Palestine are supporting the Arab boycott of Jewish-made goods (##)d Arab “defense” armies and have persuadod Arab moderates who wanted to testify (##)fore the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine not to appear. This tactic, he as(##)rted, will keep the Arabs and UNSCOP apart and give the government the opportunity (##) challenging the committee’s report on the grounds that the Arab case was not (##)ard.
He reported that Palestinians believe that Maj. Roy A. Farran, who escaped (##)ile under arrest in connection with the alleged murder of Alexander Rubovite, (##)-year-old Jewish youth, surrendered only when assured that he would be tried not (##) Rubovitz’ murder, but for breaking Army discipline. He also pointed out that (##)he government’s handling of the Farran case goaded the extremists, who had slackened (##)heir activities, into violent reprisals.
PREDICT BRITAIN WILL SEEK DELAY IN U.N. DECISION ON PALESTINE
The Agency source predicted that the British Government will do all in its {SPAN}(##){/SPAN}ower to delay a U.N. decision because Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, who is re{SPAN}(##){/SPAN}orted to have believed a few months ago that Britain would withdraw from Palestine within a year, has now changed his mind. He insisted that high British Army officers have informed Bevin that West Africa cannot be developed as a major military base {SPAN}(##){/SPAN} for another five to ten years and that Palestine is needed until then.
He also disclosed that Jewish observers in Palestine believe that UNSCOP is (##)divided into three groups : the largest consisting of delegates prepared to whitewash (##)the British administration of the Mandate and to recommend its continuance with (##)British control of immigration; the second preferring a form of partition, probably (##)less than that desired by the Agency; and the third, and smallest group, favoring an (##)independent Arab state. Palestine Jews do not expect much from the committee since (##)each representative must consult his government before voting, he said.
He interpreted the United States’ silence at the Special General Assembly meeting as meaning that it would fully support any British solution at the September session. The policy of silence, he maintained, was instituted to forestall criticism in America until it is too late.
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