Large numbers of Britons, many of them veterans of the RAF, have applied to the United Nations information office here for service with ?y U.N. force which may be sent to Palestine to keep order there, it was revealed ?ere today.
The removal of the Jewish Agency headquarters and of the offices of other Jewish representative bodies in Jerusalem is urged today by the London Economist, one of the most influential British newspapers. The paper also suggests that Jews abandon ?he outlying settlements which can only be maintained from Jerusalem.
“This may seem to Zionists too high a price to pay for religious peace, in which few of them are interested,” the paper says. However, it points out that “there are barely six weeks left in which to make peace” and warns that Jerusalem will face ?rawe dangers after the termination of the Mandate on May 15.
The British Chief Rabbinate and the Rabbinical Council, in conjunction with ##rthodox rabbinical bodies in all parts of the world, today proclaimed April 8 as a day of prayer and fasting in this country for divine intercession in behalf of the Palestine Jews and world peace.
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