In a speech to the Senate today, Senator Warren G. Magnuson, Washington Democrat, asked President Truman to call upon the British Government to “revoke all military orders, restore civil administration and remove all restrictions upon civil liberties” in Palestine.
At the same time, Magnuson said, the President should call upon the Irgun Zvai Leumi and Stern Gang to cease all terrorist activities. Magnuson suggested that the President also warn the British that “unless within a stated time large-scale immigration” of displaced Jews in Europe to Palestine is undertaken, the United States will start transporting such persons from Europe to Palestine under the protection of the American flag. Magnuson said we had a right to do this under the Anglo-American Convention of 1924.
(Britain should be prepared to partition Palestine on the basis of a “viable” Jewish state or surrender the mandate to the United Nations, the New York Herald-Tribune declared in its lead editorial this morning. “The status quo in Palestine is impossible; unless the British offer some alternative now conditions will assuredly grow worse,” it declared.)
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