The world Zionist executive was warned against entering into negotiations with the British Government on partition in a statement released here today by the world headquarters of the Zionist Revisionists.
Declaring that the World Zionist Congress provided no grounds for such negotiations, the Revisionists asserted that any attempt to commit the World Zionist Organization to partition will meet with determined resistance on the part of the “Zionist masses” and that the Revisionists will fight against it by all “legitimate means.”
The statement also blasted “attempts to circumvent” the decisions of the Basle Congress on participation in the London conference. Singling out recent statements by Moshe Shortok, world Zionist executive political chief, it declared that the Jewish Agency executive has not succeeded in “disguising” its attempts to join the parley despite the fact that the political situation has not changed as specified by the Congress.
The statement set forth four conditions whose fulfillment would cause a significant change in the situation and would warrent Jewish attendance. They were: Cassation of the war against “illegal” immigration; opening the gates of Palestine; abolition of the land purchase restrictions; and a general change in spirit and practice on the part of the British administration in Palestine.
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