A British Marine commando unit left Malta for Palestine in a landing tank ship, it was reported here today. The War Office scribed these troops and four planeloads of soldiers flown from Cyprus to Palestine yesterday as “replacements.” It is Relieved they will “be assigned to guard Lydda report and oil installations.
Prof. Selig Brodetsky, member of the Jewish Agency executive and president the Board of Deputies of British Jews, called at the Colonial Office and urged government to take active measures to prevent attacks on Jews in Palestine by ?rasjordan forces. He pointed out that under the recent British-Trans Jordan treaty the latter nation may not use its British-officered, trained and supplied Arab region without the knowledge and consent of the British Government. Prof. Brodetsky also warned the government not to leave British troops in Palestine after August 1, because such action may lead to exposing British soldiers to unnecessary risks and prevent a renewal of British-Jewish friendship which has been strained as a result the recent Palestine situation.
Ninety British officials of the Palestine Government have arrived in Britain under the evacuation schedule. Among them is Richard Graves, ex-head of the Jerusalem municipality, who asserted that Jerusalem is an untenable city and that there is complete absence of law and order there now.
The Palestine Act, providing for the surrender of the British Palestine Maniate by May 15, became law yesterday with the signature of the King. The bill had previously passed both Houses of Parliament.
A number of representative Protestant Church and lay organizations throughout England have publicly expressed sympathy for the Jewish position in Palestine. One group–the Chichester Diocese of the Church of England has announced a special session of its summer school “in thought of the Jewish nation.” Many diocesan newspapers hail the reestablishment of a Jewish state as a move in the direction of a new religious revival. Major Maurice Jaffa, former chaplain of the Jewish Brigade, has received numerous communications from Christian clergymen expressing approval of a recent statement he made to the effect that a return of the Jews to Palestine will lead to such a religious revival.
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