Britain Cooperating with Other Nations to End Palestine War, Dalton Tells Commons

Britain, in conjunction with other nations, is doing the utmost possible to bring the bloodshed in Palestine to an end, Hugh Daton, government spokesman, last night told Commons at the end of a foreign policy debate. He added that the present truce was established by the United Nations and that that organization is dealing with the matter.

A comprehensive review of the results of the recent Zionist Actions Committee session in Tel Aviv was given here last night at a large Zionist meeting addressed by several of the British delegates to the Actions Committee parley. Rabbi J.K. Goldbloom, former president of the Zionist Federation of Britain and Ireland, and Barnett Janner, leading Zionist and a Member of Parliament, explained the functional and personnel separation established between the Israeli Government and the World Zionist Organization.

Gershon Agronsky, editor of the Palestine Post, who is now visiting England, told the meeting that there has been a “slight change” in the political climate of England sofar as the Palestine situation is concerned. He stressed that the change was not due to the efforts of U.N. mediator Count Folke Bernadotte but to the firm stand taken by Israel. He added that the “Pax Brittanica is gradually being superseded by the Pax Judaica” in Israel. Agronsky declared that it is as “unthinkable” that the “Mufti’s blitz against Israel and Jerusalem” will succeed as It was that “Hitler would land in England.”

Three hundred Anglo-Jewish leaders and cultural workers attended a reception last night in honor of Simon Rawidowicz, who for fifteen years has been an active leader in the movement to disseminate Hebrew culture in Britain. Rawidowicz, who has been a lecturer at Leeds University and an editor of several research volumes on Hebrew culture, is leaving to take up research work in Chicago.