Palestine Executions Assailed at Three Meetings in N.y.; Ask Boycott of British Goods

The execution last week of Dov Gruner and three other Irgmists was condemned tonight at several meetings here.

Mrs. Helen Friedman, Gruner’s sister, addressing a meeting in Manhattan Center ?alled by the United Zionist-Revisionists, reported that she had been barred from ?eeing high British officials to appeal for mercy for her brother. The meeting also ?ard Meir Grossman, president of the United Zionist-Revisionists, Dr. Joseph Schechttan, chairman of the World Council of the Revisionists and several others. Mr. ?chechtman called for a world-wide boycott of British goods, declaring that while he was in Palestine last month the boycott had been endorsed by Irgun leader Menaham ?eigin.

Senators Homer Capehart, Republican of Indiana, and J. Howard McGrath, Democrat of Rhode Island, were the principal speakers at a meeting in the City Center arranged by the Political Action Committee for Palestine. Sen. Capehart said the rights of the Jewish people must not be sacrificed for the sake of good Anglo-American relations. Sen McGrath declared that “you cannot suppress a people’s thirst for freedom with the blood of martyrs,” Other speakers included Rabbi Baruch Korff and Joseph Clark Baldwin. Messages of support were received from several Congressmen.

At a dinner meeting called by the American League for a Free Palestine, in honor of 20 crew members of the blockade runner Ben Hecht, the League announced the Launching of a nation-wide $7,500,000 drive to aid the underground in Palestine, to “repatriate” European Jews to the Holy Land and to finance the projected Hebrew Government-in-Exile, which the Hebrew Committee for National Liberation is attempting to organize. One million dollars will be sought by July 4, to be allocated to the resistance movement.