The question of whether the Jewish Agency should cooperate with the Anglo-American inquiry commission on Palestine is now the center of discussion at the session of the Agency’s executive here which is being conducted in strictest secrecy.
Some members of the executive feel that nothing positive can be expected from the commission. A decision on this question will have to be taken before tomorrow when the Small Zionist Actions Committee is scheduled to meet in order to approve the decisions which the Agency executive will make, including methods of combatting the Bevin statement on Palestine.
The decisions of the executive, after being approved tomorrow, will be carried to Dr. Chaim Weizmann by Eliezer Kaplan, treasurer of the Jewish Agency, who is expected to leave for the United States next Monday. He will also report to Dr. Weizman on the sentiment among the Jews in Palestine and on details which are now being discussed here in camera by members of the Agency.
The central committee of the New Zionist Organization today urged a boycott of the Anglo-American inquiry commission. It charged that Bevin’s statement was a declaration of war on the “Zionists and Jewish nation,” and demanded the establishment of a united Jewish leadership, which shall declare itself a provisional Jewish government.
The NZO statement also urged that a referendum be held among Jews throughout the world to answer Bevin’s allegation that one must differentiate between Jews and Zionists.
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