An anonymous telephone caller today told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the “Revisionists and other organizations in America supporting the Irgun” had nothing to do with the defacement of British consulates in New York and other American cities during the week-end. He refused to give his name, but insisted that he was speaking “officially.”
Three youths were arrested, two in Philadelphia and one in Washington, in connection with the painting of anti-British slogans and swastikas on the buildings.
In New York three-foot long slogans in red paint read: “Nazis,” “British Following Nazis,” and “S.S. Exodus 1947.” Other slogans appeared in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago and Los Angeles.
SILVER CONDEMNS HANGING OF BRITONS; SCORES PALESTINE POLICY
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, chairman of the American Zionist Emergency Council, issued a statement during the week-end denouncing the killing of two British sergeants in Palestine by members of the Irgun. Dr. Silver asked why Britain refused to heed the pleading of the U.N. inquiry committee not to execute the extremists. He charged that in its haste the government had committed a “stupid act bordering on provocation.”
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