A demand that the Revisionist Party in Palestine assigned at least five positions on the Provisional Jewish Government Council and for three portfolios in the 13-member Cabinet was voiced here during the week-end Dr, Arieh Altman, head of the Palestinian Revisionist Party, at the opening of the ##ional convention of the United Zionists-Revisionists of America.
Asserting that the Revisionists are prepared, for the sake of unity, to participate on the proposed Jewish governing body, Dr. Altman insisted, however, that the ##ty’s representation in the government must be in proportion to its strength in the actions in Palestine for delegates to the last World Zionist Congress–at that time Revisionists received the second largest vote among the Palestine political parts. Criticizing the proposed composition of the government, he declared: “The divisional Council, as proposed by the Jewish Agency, allocates seats to the parties in control of the Agency out of all proportion to their real strength in the council, in order artificially to establish for themselves a privileged and dominant position in the management of the country’s affairs.”
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