Warning that imposition of the new British policy on Palestine will result in bloodshed was voiced by Chairman David Ben Gurion of the Jewish Agency in an interview with Joseph M. Levy, Jerusalem correspondent of the New York Times, published here today.
“The Jews who came to this country on the strength of British pledges that it would be a national home,” Mr. Ben Gurion said, “will suddenly find themselves in an Arab country with no right of immigration, no civil rights and in a kind of ghetto that will be established outside which Jews will not be allowed to settle at all. None of these things will be executed without Jewish blood being shed, this time not by Arab terrorists but by the British. I can hardly believe that the British Government and people aware of this fact.
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