Moshe Shertok, Jewish Agency representative the United Nations, today submitted to the Palestine Commission evidence of Arab ##vasion in Palestine, and British-Arab cooperation in an attack last week on the #yotzek factory, near Tel Aviv, in which 11 Jews died. Shertok circulated the larges to members of the Security Council.The Commission’s advance party in Palestine advised the parent body that it said established contact with the British authorities. The members of the party were received by Chief Secretary Sir Henry L. Gurney, while the head of the party, Pablo ?carate, was received by High Commissioner Sir Alan G. Cunningham.
The Palestine Commission today requested Britain to arrange for food imports into Palestine through the Palestine Government trading account up to July 31 Since the Commission is virtually barred from assuming its responsibility by British refusal to admit it to Palestine. The British countered with a plan which would authorize the High Commissioner to continue food imports through issuing import licenses at the expense of Palestine’s own hard currency.
The Commission forwarded the Jewish Agency charges as well as a request from Jewish political prisoners in Gilgil, Kenya, to the Mandatory Power.
The Commission expects to submit its next monthly progress report to the security Council on March 9, taking into account the position of the Commission following whatever action the Council will have taken up to that date.
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