The arrest in palestine of Eri Jabotinsky, representative of the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People in Europe, after he was deported from Turkey, reportedly as a result of British pressure, was denounced on the floor of the House today by Rep. Andrew Somers, New York Democrat.
Rep. Somers attacked what he described as “brasen and open interference with our foreign policy by an outside power.” A spokesman for the Congressman said later that Somers construed Jabotinsky’s arrest as “interference with our foreign policy” because Jabotinsky had gone to Turkey with the approval of the United States War Refugee Board and with permission of American authorities.
A demand that Jabotinsky be released immediately was voiced in a lotter of protest sent today by the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation to the British Ambassador in Washington. “In view of the fact that Palestine is an international territory, mandated to the British Government, such behaviour towards Palestinian citizens, without trial or even charges, is an action typical of those of Nazi Germany in the territories it overran, and is unworthy either of Britain’s past, or of its position as a leading power of the United Nations,” the protest said.
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