The Moyne trial could not have been fair because the British exercise great political pressure in Egypt and control the channels of information, the New Zionist Organization of America charged today in a statement issued from its New York headquarters.
“There can be only one reason for this suppression of evidence to keep the said the statement. Expressing firm opposition to terrorism as a means of achieving Jewish aspirations in Palestine, it warned that Jewish efforts to halt terroristic acts and “British intimidation” were both powerless unless the conditions which give rise to such desperate acts are radically improved.
A meeting of the Zionist-Revisionist Organization of America, held last night at the Hotel Edison, adopted a resolution demanding that “an international court of justice take over the trial of the two alleged assassins of Lord Moyne. “It is the unanimous opinion of all observers at the Cairo trial,” the resolution reads in part, “that the two Palestinian youths who performed the political attendants against Lord Moyne are not mere criminals, but young idealists. But British intimidation of Egyptian authorities prevented the world from learning what Khakim and Ben Zuri said at the Cairo trial.”
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