Preparations for uninterrupted production in factories and shops and for providing workers’ families with food, even during curfew periods, were completed here today by the Histadruth as part of a general plan to meet “any eventuality.”
The left-wing Hashomer Hatzair, which had been erroneously reported as favoring acceptance of the Palestine Government’s ultimatum, today cabled trade unions and Labor Parties in Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and other democratic countries. asking them to intervene against the imposition of martial law, which “will only frustrate the democratic Jewish community’s effort to and terrorism.” It urges a solution leading to an independent bi-national state under the control of the Big Three.
(Philip Murray, president of the C.I.O., today appealed to Foreign Minister Bevin not to impose military law. “Such a policy would be dangerous in its reaction on the American public, ” he said. “The steadily deteriorating situation requires action in accord with the British Labor promises to Jews. The threat of martial law and the evacuation of British women and children have increased tension and does irreparable harm.”)
“Operation Polly, ” the British designation for the evacuation of women,children and non-essantial males from Palestine, has been completed, the authorities announced today. All Britons remaining have been ordered to remain in their quarters through Saturday and Sunday, it was learned here.
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