Plans for Election of Provisional Jewish Government Being Mapped by Zionist Bodies

The Jewish Agency is considering plans for covening a Constituent Assembly in Jerusalem shortly to establish a Jewish Provisional Government, it was learned here today.

The praesidium of the Zionist Actions Committee has decided to convoke the Committee here some time after the close of the U.N. General Assembly. The Jewish Agency will arrange for meetings of its executive and plenum for the same date, so that the combined groups might form the Constituent Assembly, although there has been no final decision taken by either the Agency or the Jewish National Council as to what group will elect the new provisional government.

The right-wing Citizens Bloc opposes any arrangement by which the government would be chosen by the Agency or the Zionist Actions Committee and wants it elected only by residents of Palestine. It is therefore demanding a meeting of the Assefath Hanivchairm, the Jewish National Assembly–which it has been boycotting for several years–enlarged to include representatives of groups not now represented. The Assembly should then elect the government, it maintains,

ALL PALESTINE LABORITES JOIN IN APPEAL FOR ACTION TO END TERRORISM

All labor groups, ranging from the left-wing Hashomer Hatzair to the Poale Aguda joined today in issuing a joint manifesto to the Jewish community calling on it to accept national discipline and to oppose extortions, robberies and murders and to isolate those supporting such methods. The appeal called on the official Jewish institutions to launch a drive for funds for defense purposes.

The newspaper Haboker reports that unity negotiations between the Hashomer Hatzair and the Tenua L’Achdut Avoda have reached the final stages and a merger of the two left-wing labor organizations is expected shortly. Haboker adds that the final details are expected to be threshed out at a meeting this week-end.

Complaints have been received from various parts of the country during the past few days against a new outbreak of attacks by members of the British forces. A taxi driver, Ezra Levy, was seriously wounded by two soldiers who were travelling in his cab to a military camp at Mt. Scopus. The soldiers, who are reported to have been arrested, allegedly claimed that they were shot in self-defense, fearing that they were being kidnapped. The police have been intervening actively in the clashes between Haganah and Irgun leaflet souads, beating and shooting at both indiscriminately.

A bomb explosion today wrecked the offices in Jaffa of the anti-Mufti Arab weekly Nida el Ard (Call of the Land). The paper recently attacked the political position of the Palestine Arab Higher Committee.