Foreign Secretary Bevin’s statement on Palestine at the convention of the British Labor Party aroused not only indignation among the Jews here, but provoked bitterness, paying the way for renewed outbreaks.
The underground radio of the Haganah in an English language broadcast today warned that “everything that the Jews in Palestine have done hitherto will be nothing as compared with what they intend to do and will do.” It cautioned Britain “not to play around with Jewish lives and feelings.”
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