Hillel kook, known in the United States as Peter Bergson, arrived here from Israel yesterday to liquidate the Hebrew Committee for National Liberation, of which he was the founder. He charged upon his arrival that the British, not the Arabs, are fighting against the Jews in Israel. It is up to the British to decide when the fighting will end, he stated.
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