A one-day country-wide strike has been called by the Palestine Arab Higher Executive for June 16, to coincide with the opening of hearings by the U.N. inquiry committee. The Executive has indicated that it will boycott the hearings.
James B. Alexander, chief administrative officer of the inquiry committee, and 33 othe members of the technical and secretarial staff arrived here today by plane. Alexander declared that the eleven members of the commission and their deputies are expected to land Saturday. Moshe Shertok, head of the Washington office of the Jewish Agency, arrived on the same plans.
(It was announced at Lake Success today that most of the committee members, accompanied by representatives of the press, will leave La Guardia Field tomorrow morning on a British Overseas Airways Corporation plane for London. The BOAC craft will remain in England until June 13, when it will leave for Lydda airport in Palestine. A Trans-World Airline plane will leave New York on the 13th with the remainder of the committee, and proceed directly to Lydda, via Rome and Cairo.)
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