At least one Jew was reported injured and several shop windows smashed in a riot by British troops in Nathanya last night.
The official and unofficial versions of the incident differed, with police stating that the violence had occurred when soldiers of the Royal Ulster Rifles got into a fight with some paratroopers, while private reports said that the soldiers had aimed their attacks at Jewish civilians.
The Haganah radio, “Voice of Israel,” addressed a message to “British mothers” today, stating that the Jewish community does not bear the responsibility for the death of “your sons” murdered by the terrorists, since it condemns terrorist outrages. “Sole responsibility rests with the British administration and its policy,” the broadcast added.
Before leaving for Cairo today, where he is reported going to become general secretary of the Arab League, Jamal Husseini, vice-chairman of the Palestine Arab Higher Executive, reiterated official Arab opposition to partition. In a statement to the press, he said that the Palestine Arabs will not participate in the London conference if the ex-Mufti is not invited. He revealed that the Higher Committee has drawn up “certain resolutions to solve the Palestine problem,” which, he said, would “have an immediate effect on the situation and be a surprise to the country.
Husseini warned that continued terrorism by Jewish extremists and American intervention into the Palestine situation might endanger the status of Jews in other Arab countries.
Republican Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon arrived here yesterday. He declared that in his recent tour of DP camps in Europe, he found that the refugees desire to gram. It would be felly to enter the London Conference with a partitioned Palestine as our maximum demand, even assuming that it would be tactically sound to attend,” the ZOA president concluded.
SILVER STAND ATTACKED BY BRODETSKY AS FORMULA WITHOUT PRACTICAL PLANS
Replying to Dr. Silver at a political meeting of the General Zionists today, Prof. Selig Brodetsky, member of the World Zionist Executive, charged that Silver is presenting formulas, without stating in practical terms what is to be done. Brodetsky favored participation in the London Conference, and called on the Congress to reiterate Zionist aims to the whole of Palestine, and to decide on practical means of achieving them. Recalling that he had opposed partition in 1939, the British Zionist leader said that he now believed that there was “no solution but a state in which Jews will be their own masters.”
He warned that Zionists could not continue their struggle by military means only, and criticized Silver’s reference to “so-called terror.” He urged the Congress to appeal to the Jewish community of Palestine to prevent repetition of recent terroristic activities.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, Jewish Agency representative in the United States, who met recently in New York with Foreign Secretary Bovin and Secretary of State Byrnes, warned the meeting in blunt terms that the Zionists must be ready to compromise, since they cannot “by their present acts” force Britain to allow large scale immigration which would allow Jews to become a majority in five or ten years. He said that even friends of the Zionists in government circles were not prepared to recommend admission of 100,000 Jews without a final solution.
Declaring that he did not believe that Britain was bluffing when it implied in recent statements that it was ready to give up the mandate to the United Nations, Goldmann said that there were only two possible developments if that were done: Britain would get a U.N. trusteeship to replace the mandate, which would perpetuate the present situation, or a joint trusteeship would be established, which, he said, would mean a permanent stalemate. The only possible solution at the moment, therefore, he added, was the “tragic compromise” of partition.
GOLDMANN SCORED BY SNEH FOR PAINTING “NON-EXISTENT ROSY WORLD”
Dr. Goldmann was bitterly attacked by Dr. Moshe Sneh, who said that “non like Goldmann were dangerous because they depict a non-existent rosy world. The truth is that Britain does not seek a solution at all, but is following a policy dictated purely by strategic bureaucratic considerations.”
For a compromise to be arrived at, Dr. Sneh said, there must be two offers, but at the moment “we are alone.” He demanded that the Zionists refuse to participate in the London conference and refuse to offer any compromises. “Why should Jews serve as an ornament to a British conference seeking an anti-Zionist solution?” he asked.
The security chief of the Jewish Agency, who was the target of a country-wide British manhunt last summer, demanded that the Congress call for an exodus from Europe of Jews who desire to go to Palestine. He urged resistance to the British, and accused the London representatives of the Jewish Agency of misleading the Jerusalem leaders by presenting a false picture of the realities of the situation in London. go to Palestine, and, therefore, he wishes to see “Jewish enterprise” here at first hand. Jacob Javits, Republican Congressman-elect from New York, who has been touring the country, visited Tel Aviv today, where he was received by Mayor Israel Rokach.
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