The possibility that Jews might use the methods employed by Mohandas K. Gandhi in India if Great Britain restricts Jewish activities in Palestine has been voiced by officials of the Jewish agency, the associated press reported today from jerusalem.
The dispatch said Agency officials, declaring world Jewry would never accept the reported plan, asserted Jews would never resort to armed force against the british, but might adopt non-violent methods similar to those employed by Gandhi including civil disobedience, passive resistance and possible boycott of the british government.
The Herald Tribune’s London correspondent, Joseph Driscoll, said that “it was taken for granted that the british government would abandon the peel commission’s plan for the partition of pales tine.” he declared it was thought that a new scheme would be proposed to unify Palestine under British control, with considerable local autonomy and home Rule allowed to Arabs and Jews in their own towns and villages.
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