A one-day work stoppage of Jews tomorrow with prayers in all synagogues in protest against the ordinance restricting land sales was proclaimed today throughout Palestine.
Meanwhile, warning that the Jewish people would not submit to “conversion of the Jewish national home into a ghetto” was voiced in a letter to High Commissioner Sir Harold Alfred MacMichael by David Ben Gurion, chairman of the Jerusalem Executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Ben Gurion declared that the Jews could not believe that Britain would be consciously responsible for such a “travesty of international obligation.”
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