Eri Jabotinsky, son of President Vladimir Jabotinsky of the New Zionist Organization, is being detained in Acre, Palestine, under the emergency defense regulations and is not awaiting trial, the House of Commons was told today in reply to a query by Col. Josiah Wedgwood, Labor M.P.
Jabotinsky, who was arrested last month when he arrived with a large group of illegal immigrants, is allowed to see one visitor a week and is permitted to send a reasonable number of letters, a spokesman for Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald said. No obstacles are placed in the way of communicating with his mother in England.
The spokesman, R.V. Crimston, promised to inquire with regard to Wedgwood’s supplementary question on whether a proposal to try Jabotinsky for getting the refugees into Palestine has been abandoned. Jabotinsky is a Palestinian citizen. His father is scheduled to arrive in New York tomorrow.
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