The extraordinary session of the executive of the Jewish Agency, which has been in session here for three weeks, adjourned tonight.
Rabbi Judah L. Fishman, Eliahu Dobkin, Goldie Meirson and Isaac Ben Zvi are scheduled to leave tonight by air for Palestine where they will report on the deliberations here. Other executive members and Zionist leaders who have been participating in the meeting will remain in Paris for several days for private discussions and negotiations.
Dr. Moses Sneh, a member of the executive, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency today that execution of the 18 Jewish youths sentenced to death for their participation in an attack on the Haifa railway yards will be considered a hostile act by Jewish public opinion throughout the world.
Although the Stern Group, with which the 18 are affiliated, is not responsible to the Jewish community and the Jewish community has no responsibility for the activities of the group, “fatal consequences” may follow if the sentences are carried out, said Sneh, who was the object of a man-hunt by British authorities in Palestine during the raids on the Jewish Agency.
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