British Jewry continued to press its campaign to persuade the government to prevent the opening of a Palestine Liberation Organization office here. A delegation from the Board of Deputies of British Jews visited Home Secretary Reginald Maudling today to express the Anglo-Jewish community’s concern. The PLO is an umbrella organization for Palestinian terrorist groups.
The Board of Deputies delegation, headed by its president Michael M. Fidler, was told by Maudling that the government has no legal means to prevent the office from opening. He said, however, that he understood the anxiety caused by the planned office and would reflect carefully on the representations that have been made.
The Herut movement here announced today that it has postponed plans for a public protest march and would coordinate its efforts against the PLO office with other Jewish bodies. The Herut statement said the postponement took into consideration “the present stage of the campaign and the desirability of coordinated action in this connection.” It expressed satisfaction with a decision by the British Zionist Federation to organize a public demonstration against the PLO office if the current campaign yields no results.
REVISIONIST LEADERS MEET WITH BRITISH OFFICIALS
(Two leaders of the United Zionists-Revisionists of America disclosed in New York yesterday that they had met with two British diplomats to protest the PLO office. Prof. Marnin Feinstein, public affairs director and Joseph Greenblatt, executive director of the UZRA said they had “a lengthy discussion” on the issue with Cyril A. Lovitt, the Deputy Consul General of Britain in NY and Stephen Day, First Secretary of the British UN Mission. They said the British representatives explained that under British law there were no grounds for banning the PLO office notwithstanding its objectives. They said their government could act only if British laws are violated, adding “the activities of the PLO will be scrutinized very carefully,” the Revisionists reported.)
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