Declaring that U.S. support of Britain’s Middle East policy will “at this critical juncture, created sympathy and aid for Soviet Russia,” Dr. Arich Altman, President of the United Zionist-Revisionists of Palestine, tonight told a dinner sponsored by the Palestine Pioneers Foundation that “Britain’s anti-Jewish policy will not only spell Britain’s own doom, but will also destroy the moral foundation of Western Democracy.” Dr. Altman warned that “the fire ignited in the hills of Gullies will not confine itself to Palestine alone,” but might easily spread through the Middle East and the world.
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