The Jewish Agency in a statement here today deploring the outbreak of viclence in Palestine, warned the British that the Agency’s capacity to impose restraint is being “severely tried by the maintenance of a policy which Jews regard as fatal to their future.”
“It is a tragedy that matters in Palestine should have reached such a stage,” the statement said. “The White Paper policy, with its stranglehold on Jewish immigration and its anti-Jewish land laws, was an attempt to deal a mortal blow to the hopes of the Jewish people. Its continuation for so many months after the war has exacerbated feeling to an unprecedented extent.
“Moreover, Jews in Palestine have watched with evergrowing distress the plight of their fellow Jews in Europe, amongst them many of their kith and kin. The Jewish Agency repudiates recourse to violence as an instrument of political struggle, but it finds its capacity to impose restraint severely tried by the maintenance of a policy which Jews regard as fatal to their future.”
The office of the Arab League here issued a statement blaming the Zionists for the viclance in Palestine and emphasizing that if any further outbreaks take place there, “it will be a revolt of the Zionists against the Palestine Government and not a civil war between the Arabs and the Jews.”
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