The Zionist Actions Committee, the supreme Zion body between world congresses, today opened its emergency session here on a note optimism by David Ben Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency executive, who report-fin the steps taken to proclaim a Jewish government on May 16. He also reported increase in the Haganah’s strength in terns of manpower and arms.
A discussion of the U.S. trusteeship plan for Palestine is one of the major is on the agenda of the Actions Committee. It is understood that the Jewish Agen-R64ay cabled instructions to its delegation at late Success to oppose British Ration on the grounds that Britain is a party in the Palestine dispute. The deletion was told to emphasize no truce is possible as long as Arab gangs from boring countries remain in Palestine.
The U.N. Security Council’s call for a truce in Palestine is the first the agenda. One of the basic conditions of the Jewish Agency is that the truce did not involve any long term concessions on the part of the Jews, nor political ?ender.
Other item to be considered by the parley Include ratification of an agreement Between the Haganah and the Irgun, establishment of a Jewish Provisional Government immediately after expiration of the Palestine Mandate on May 15, election of new cars to the Jewish Agency executive and approval of plans to meet various aspects the Palestine situation.
In his report today, Ban Gurion spoke lengthily on the military and polity-situation in the country and indicated that the Jewish Agency was determined not permit any trusteeship plan to prevent the creation of a Jewish state as provided the partition decision of the United Nations.
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