Dr. Silver Scores Palestine Govt. for Failure to Protect Jerusalem

The Palestine Government’s failure to protect Jerusalem and its residents was scored here last night in a statement by Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, chairman of the American section of the Jewish Agency, commenting on the Jerusalem bombing. “The outrage in Palestine, with its frightful toll of life, along with the similar outrage three weeks ago, must be blamed on the Palestine Government’s unpardonable failure to take the most elementary measures to protect the Holy City of Jerusalem and its residents,” he said.

“We are not in a position here to comment on charges of eye-witnesses that British forces are implemented in this dastardly act. But there is no doubt that these outrages are the most direct result of the British policy of malevolent ‘neutrality and non-cooperation with the United Nations decision,” Dr. Silver’s statement declared.

The Agency office in New York announced the receipt of a cablegram from its Palestine office which said that Haganah men stationed at a Haganah roadblock at Romema, who checked and spoke with the occupants of the army trucks and the armored car responsible for the explosion before the blast occurred, “testified that the drivers of the trucks and the occupants of the armored car were English.”