A well-known firm of British solicitors has been instructed to file an appeal with the Privy Council on behalf of Dov Gruner, condemned Palestinian Jew, by Max Seligman, Palestine attorney now in London. Seligman received instructions from Gruner’s lawyers in Jerusalem.
Meanwhile, the lawyers have cabled Palestine High Commissioner Sir Alan Cunningham advising him of their action and urging a postponement of Gruner’s execution. A similar note was also submitted to the Colonial Office here.
(Max Kritzman, one of Gruner’s two lawyers, visited the condemned man today and said after he left the prison that he had little hope that Gruner’s sister, Mrs. Helen Frisdman, who is now on route to Palestine by air, will be able to persuade him to sign an appeal. Kritzman said that Gruner asked that he not be bothered any further. “If I must die, let me die in peace,” the lawyer quoted him as stating.)
The executive of the Revisionist Party has submitted a memorandum to the pressidium of the Zionist Actions Committee demanding immediate convocation of the Committee to discuss the pressent Palestine situation. The letter protested the fact that the Jewish Agency is conducting negotiations with the British Government under the present conditions.
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